Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: WP-A: A New URL Shortener Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 17:27:35 +1300 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <17785955.P1rOlOtRcj@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net L9E4keAwUxuGi44KlEKO5gE8B9nwO6MTqa/R4iJ0Bg8BqLMZNj Cancel-Lock: sha1:StkeJ86zNafpyKci+nBkKyVAaQU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:104988 Chris Angelico wrote: > There are many places where there are limits (hard or soft) on message > lengths. Some of us still use MUDs and 80-character line limits. > Business cards or other printed media need to be transcribed by hand. > Dictation of URLs becomes virtually impossible when they're > arbitrarily long. Your typical shortened URL made up of a random jumble of letters and numbers isn't good for dictating or transcribing from a business card either. For those uses, a well-chosen semantically-memorable URL is still the best solution. There shouldn't be too much trouble in arranging one of those that's short enough to put on a business card. -- Greg