27 Dec 11 21:55, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
    RW>> In reply to my email about using TinyURL.com to shorten up the   
    RW>> hyperlinks used in the ARRL newsletter.   
      
    ml> maybe it would be beneficial to point out to him that even the AR   
    ml> NEWSLINE uses tinyurl to make the links shorter... not everyone uses   
    ml> a web browser or email program to read their newsletters... some folk   
    ml> are limited to old style text only formats and links longer then some   
    ml> 20 characters are a PITA to type into some sort of retrieval tool...   
    ml> especially on systems where GUI type stuff like copy'n'paste is   
    ml> non-existant... we won't even point to text only systems being read   
    ml> from and other GUI based systems being used for the lookups where   
    ml> typing overly long URLs is really a buggar to deal with ;)   
      
    ml> feel free to forward my reply above in its entirity if you like ;)   
      
   I've already explained this to him, but I'll keep this in mind if he   
   needes further exposure to reality.   
      
      
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