[ExI] statins bad? again? sorry - I did not know where to cut it off. bill w

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 21:17:33 UTC 2020


Dylan - that's very helpful - thanks.   bill w

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 2:46 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Bill-
>
> Not sure if you're asking why they're there or why you're asked to shorten
> them.  If it's the former, they're typically add ons for tracking things
> like how someone got to the site (from a newsletter for example), or
> other tracking attributes.   If it's the latter, some people just don't
> like dealing with longer urls for copy/paste, etc.  It's a personal
> preference.
>
> If you want to shorten urls across the board without editing, you can use
> a service like tinyurl.com which lets you paste in the full link and it
> will shorten it for you to a very succinct one.
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey, I'll cut them off, but what is the point?  bill w
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 1:06 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:47 AM Anton Sherwood <bronto at pobox.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2020-8-11 10:35, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
>>>> > There are a few cases where the things after the ? matter,
>>>> > but these are rare.
>>>>
>>>> Mm, I'd say that's overstating it.  Consider youtube for example.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Even some YT URLs embed all the relevant stuff before the ?.  But I was
>>> talking about article URLs, like he was sharing and had been requested to
>>> shorten before.
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