On Jan 30, 2015 10:16 PM, "Giles Orr" <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:
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
Nope. I was not even using a web browser. This is the problem. You are all making assumptions that are invalid. Read it or don't, I couldn't care less about people's paranoid fears.
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. :-)
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