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

If someone wants to convince me that tinyurl provides a valuable service to the community, I am listening. If not, I kindly request that those people who are in the habit of using tinyurl reconsider it.

I second this. Once per week or so (on some occasions several times in a week) I have been unable to reach webpages referred to because I could not contact tinyurl.com. This is frustrating; I know the page is somewhere on boost.org, and I know I can reach the website, I just can't reach the middleman that's hiding the real URL from me. If the URL is very long and you would prefer not to clutter your message with it, an alternative is to make a footnote like this [1]. /Mattias [1] <http://www.google.com/>