Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Peter H. Coffin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: OT: wasted bytes Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:41:04 -0500 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <83d5cbdafje02j8e85i9jkmbs0n46t15qp@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net pswfKZ6Ck/j/LxE6o0uqJw53D5duj9yZCR6HlnBcx7N7uIhh/b X-Orig-Path: nibelheim.ninehells.com!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:B7P3phWRnMHwG7rpYOBy+qGoU0g= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (OpenBSD) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:16642 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