Re: Broken lines and URLs

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:01:11 PDT, Bill Janssen wrote on Re:
[ebook-community] Broken lines and URLs:

>> Tiny URLs don't persist, iirc. It breaks the links in the archives, no?
>
>And some of us just don't click on "tiny URL" redirectors.

I agree with either sentence. Broken links in internet archives are a
nuisance, and are a side effect of something originally deemed to be
useful.

There is another example of such undesirable side effects with
Highjackthis, a virus and spyware tracing tool, where people are told
to post a list of software running on their machine. After a while,
this posting creates a lot of indexed information that is just noise,
and the "signal" on actual viruses gets drowned and lost.
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