Re: [boost] What is it with boost and tinyurl?

Miro Jurisic wrote:

Tinyurl (and similar services) discard valuable information from the URL. I often use information in the URL itself to judge whether the topic being discussed is of interest to me.

To add another example of existing practice, in some forums where hypertext links are used, it is considered impolite to post a clickable URL without at least mentioning in plaintext the domain name that it refers to. I don't know how much information a domain name adds, but I think a lot of people, myself included, don't like clicking on blind links. Also, how long do tinyurls last? A year from now, when someone is searching the archives, will they still be able to follow a tinyurl? Three years from now? Aaron W. LaFramboise