On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:37:44AM +0000, Michael Shields wrote:
In message <3FD4B5B0.27070.A564625@localhost>, "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
Searching GG on "don frederickson got tim" is maybe more reliable than pasting this URL.
For long urls, compress with tinuyurl.com
If you do that, you have to rely on both the Google URL not changing and on tinyurl not going away.
I usually convert a Google Groups URL to a query using only the Message-ID: before posting it publicly. E.g. in the case of the message Tim May referred to, that'd be http://groups.google.com/groups?oe=UTF-8&as_umsgid=%3C220820032357238678%25timcmay%40removethis.got.net%3E Then the URL won't be _too_ long, and if Google changes the URL scheme or is replaced by some other archve, you've got the original Message-ID, the best identifier you could hope for. -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/avva/