On 05-Feb-10 15:08, Ted Smith wrote:
Please stop whining and fix the problem at hand given an opportunity to do so.
It's my pah-ty, I can whine if I want to. BTW, how does pointing out an issue, not qualify as fixing the problem at hand? Hmmm?
PS: If you don't want to FOLLOW an obfuscated URL, you could just disable XS requests in your browser of choice, or if you wanted to be really l33t, Europus, netcat to the host and GET the page:
I know. The point, which you missed, was RAH sending a shortened URL. If RAH wants to send URLs like that, he can. But he damages his own cypherpunk street cred, with each shortened URL. Because with that shorty URL, he makes you and me engage in labor we should not have to engage in, if only he had sent the real (target) URL instead. The question we need to be asking ourselves, why on earth did RAH go to the extra effort of creating that short URL in the first place? He's a veteran of this list, what is his angle? Or the angle of whatever it is that has its whole arm up his ass, if he really can't defend himself. Which he hasn't, yet. Tim May can't be blamed for short URLs. Do you get it now? Even then, bit.ly or shor.ty or as.sy are not guaranteed to be available in 1, 5, 10 years. Example? Shurl.com and yes, it did used to exist: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://Shurl.com Can you hear me now/yet? WOULD IT HELP IF I SHOUTED?
Does that count as "clicking"? Am I not a tr00 cypherpunk anymore?
Yes, no, and you lose. His shorty URL caused you to engage in labor you should not have had to engage in - and you were probably exposed to ads - or links to ads, as a result. When will strong encryption be baked into email clients, so that discussions like this are not necessary anymore?
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And, your demimed email client sucks too.