"G Hardy" wrote in message
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"Jerry" wrote in message
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"G Hardy" wrote in message
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...sorry but I haven't followed your URL as I do not follow any
tinyurl.com link for security reasons, perhaps you could post the
full URL?

Not really on topic, but if you prefix tinyurl with "preview."
you'll be taken to the tinyurl page first and it will tell you
where you're going if you follow the link. For example, in this
case, you'd use http://preview.tinyurl.com/5ppn4c

Hope it helps.


No, not really! One still needs to *go via* the 'tinyurl' web
server...

Some people are really hard to please. What is it about the tinyurl
server that upsets you?

I don't trust it or those behind it, why can't people just post the
original URL, what is the problem with that - surely it's no more
difficult to copy and paste the original URL than getting and then
posting one of these shorter URLs? If people want *me* to follow a
URL, so that *I might help them*, then they either do it my way or
they don't get the help they might otherwise get (and I'm sure than
I'm not the only person who thinks that way either)...
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