Alexander Koryagin:   
   AK> I  am  glad  you  have  managed to overcome your   
   AK> technical problems and got through to this echo.   
      
   Yeah, though it's a shame I can't access  it  via  a   
   service  from  my  own  country.  I have not yet de-   
   spaired of ever doing it.   
      
   AK>>> Sometimes we are not sure what is  hiding  be-   
   AK>>> hind the short URL you just received. There is   
   AK>>> a site that can help:   
   AK>>>   
   AK>>>    http://www.knowurl.com   
   AK>>>   
   AS>> I have  been  taught  on  Usenet  that  posting   
   AS>> short,  auto-forwarding  URLs  is  impolite and   
   AS>> that one shall always  supply  either  a  short   
   AS>> preview URL or the full one to boot, e.g.:   
   AS>>   
   AS>>        http://tinyurl.com/5rd3lt   
   AS>>        http://preview.tinyurl.com/5rd3lt   
   AS>>        [ Netizens: An Anthology ]   
   AS>>   
   AK> What is "preview URL"?   
      
   One  which  does not automatically open the destina-   
   tion URL, but rather lets one  view  it  and  decide   
   whether it is safe or not.   
      
   AK> If I post a short URL of a certain site -- where   
   AK> can I get a "preview page URLs"?   
      
   The shortening service (nothing to do with dough :-)   
   usually privides it.  tinyurl does.   
      
   AK> Short  URLs  are needed only in one case -- when   
   AK> the URL you want to post out is too long.   Long   
   AK> URLs look bad, although they are not prohibited.   
      
   Yes, and in the modern bloated internet the majority   
   are eye-wearingly long.   
      
   AK> Yes, you should put "employ the Fido-style quot-   
   AK> ing".  Similar "to use the English language".   
      
   Thanks.   
      
   AK> BTW,  what  a  program do you use when you write   
   AK> your messages?   
      
   It's my turn to correct you: omit the 'a'.   
      
   Sylpheed is my newsreader and GNU Troff  my  format-   
   ter.   But  pray  tell  what  your client is, for it   
   seems to reflow my text, sometimes in a most inaccu-   
   rate  manner,  e.g. it changed the three lines of my   
   short URL exposition into two but preserved the for-   
   matting of the P.S.   
      
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