Got.net and its narcing out of its customers

[Anatoly Vorobey]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:37:44AM +0000, Michael Shields wrote:
> In message <3FD4B5B0.27070.A564625 at localhost>,
> "James A. Donald" <jamesd at 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
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/yc3s
> 
> 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.

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