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>
> >
> > | http://gu.com/p/45ba6
> >
> > 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-science-weekly-podcast
> .  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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