On Feb 24, 2006, at 8:59 AM — 2/24/06, Bill Brown wrote: > "LISTSERV list owners' forum" <[log in to unmask]> wrote on > 02/23/2006 04:15:37 PM: > >> try TinyURL: >> http://tinyurl.com/ > > Does anyone else mistrust tinyurl? > > I hate that when someone sends me one of those links, I have no > idea where > it will take me to. I used urlx.org, but they are currently having > some > technical difficulties. Part of the generated URL indicates the > domain > that you will be redirected to. Ie. http://urlx.org/edbrill.com/4f00 > shows that I would be redirected to some page on EdBrill.com. That's a fair question. I judge the trustworthiness on the context of the message in which such URL cites occur and the person writing the cite. For example, I have no problem trusting any URL's I see cited on this list. On Usenet newsgroups that are unmoderated and prone to spam, I do not willy nilly click on such links unless I am given a good reason to do so.