Re: Carnegie again

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Quoting "S.Green" <2esses@adelphia.net>:

> I think that too many people today try to get by the easiest way they
> can -- hoping that the receiver will interpret and interpolate his
> ideas accurately.  Unfortunately, this fails to happen much to often.

Personally, I blame whoever thought it would be a good idea to name a  
file  
"workers-at-phil-fraley-productions-and-carnegie-museum-of-natural.html".
There's no good reason for this; as TinyURL shows, it's possible to  
create unique strings with far fewer characters. If the web designers  
took a leaf out of TinyURLs book, there'd be far less need for their  
service at all.

Bring back the days of 8-character DOS-compatible file names, I say... :)


> Tim Williams wrote:
> > S.Green wrote:
> >
> > > As I wrote not too long ago, if DV had used TinyURL to shorten the  
> > >  URL that accompanied his message, it would have been easier for  
> > > us  to access the web site he referenced:
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/fdx3u   (try it - it works!)
> > >
> > >   -- instead of --
> > >
> > > http://it.news.yahoo.com/07082006/38/immagine/workers-at-phi
> > >     l-fraley-productions-and-carnegie-museum-of-natural.html
> > >
> > > Its a good tool to learn to use -- and very easy!
> >
> > Hmmmm.... Do you have shares in the company?  ;-)



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