On 30 January 2015 at 22:10, William Muriithi <william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
| From: Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne@gmail.com>
I recommend NOT shortening URLs in a mailing list. Some of us like to know where we're going before we follow a link.
+1
It's such an dangerous thing to do if you think at it from security perspective. I usually just don't bother clicking on it
When clicked on, the URL expands to http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/jan/30/computing-universe-scie... . Which is probably the URL you were looking at in your browser. Rather than copying the URL they provide (I assume the provided the gu.com URL with a sign saying "copy this!"), use what's in the location bar of your browser, as I'm inclined to agree with William and Hugh: I like to know where I'm going. I default to all JavaScript and cross-site scripting turned off - and I _still_ want to know my target address. :-) -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com