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Re: OT: wasted bytes

From "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: OT: wasted bytes
Date 2016-03-15 09:41 -0500
Message-ID <slrnneg7o0.us5.hellsop@nibelheim.ninehells.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <n9vb0h$npj$1@jstuckle.eternal-september.org> <na54u6$8o0$1@dont-email.me> <na5999$p02$2@jstuckle.eternal-september.org> <na5hne$pni$1@dont-email.me> <na5p5l$kfn$1@jstuckle.eternal-september.org>

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:58:16 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> But that doesn't mean a long URL like the one you quoted is bad.  Just
> that short ones are easier to type in (not that anyone does, nowadays).

I, for one, do. Or copy and paste about three times in order to use one
of those stunningly long URLs. Why? Because it's essentially impossible
to be even momentarily fooled by phishing emails or accidentally execute
a Trojan attachment in mutt. Similarly, I'm using a shell client for
netnews. And a shell client for IRC. All of those tools isolate my
actual personal computers from the the machine in the rack in San Diego. 

-- 
"If Ace [Double] Books ever came out with an edition of The Bible, both 
books would be edited down to 40,000 words, and they'd be renamed 
"Master of Chaos" and "The Thing With Three Souls."
              -- Terry Carr

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OT: wasted bytes Richard Yates <richard@yatesguitar.com> - 2016-02-15 21:39 -0800
  Re: OT: wasted bytes "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-02-16 12:21 +0100
    Re: OT: wasted bytes Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-19 00:47 +0100
  Re: OT: wasted bytes Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-16 09:19 -0500
    Re: OT: wasted bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-18 19:12 +0000
      Re: OT: wasted bytes Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-18 15:25 -0500
      Re: OT: wasted bytes Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-18 15:27 -0500
        Re: OT: wasted bytes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-18 22:51 +0000
          Re: OT: wasted bytes Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-18 19:58 -0500
            Re: OT: wasted bytes "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2016-03-15 09:41 -0500
              Re: OT: wasted bytes Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-03-15 11:00 -0400
                Re: OT: wasted bytes Härra Ramob <y6655442211@gmail.com> - 2022-01-02 03:50 -0800

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