| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> | | 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. I want to appologize to Thomas for this. It turns out that gu.com is The (formerly Manchester) Guardian's site. It just looked like a shortened URL. Of course that's a problem in itself, but it's the Guardian's fault. If you go to gu.com, you get to http://www.theguardian.com/uk If you go to http://www.theguardian.com/uk/p/45ba6, you get a 404. What a mess. (If you go to www.theguardian.co.uk, you get to http://www.theguardian.com/uk; I would have expected the reverse.) Perhaps similarly, tgam.ca is a shortening service provided for and by http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ (I always thought that the Guardian was the top UK "quality" newspaper. Its website's front page seems pretty fluffy.)