From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Rob Stewart <stewart@sig.com> writes:
From: Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>
I'd like to add that, of the half-dozen free/open software lists I read, boost is the only list that uses tinyurl's. Making boost more or less dependent on tinyurl seems unnecessary. In addition, someone who is not mark may post a url like
http://foo.com/~mark/new_algorithm.pdf
Later mark (not the original poster) moves their site to mark.com, so the site moves to
http://mark.com/new_algorithm.pdf
With tinyurl's, it is much harder or impossible to find the new page.
It looks hard or impossible to me even without tinyurls. How do tinyurls hurt this situation? Are you really likely to find the new url by probing likely new urls based on the old one?
If you were aware that foo.com/~mark became mark.com, you could make the translation having the other information in the original URL. Using the TinyURL, the information is lost. -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;