8.04?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 00:10 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Don't use tinyurl. How do I know it's not pointing to malware?

I could have used the preview version, that's right. OTOH if you don't
trust me you can google my email adress and see my 3000 posts to this
list.

>  Do you
> trust that tinyurl will stay in business for as long as that link is
> valid? 

I certainly trust that they will stay in business until this bug is
fixed :)

> Do you trust them not to deliberately or accidentally try to
> pass on some malware en route to the site? 

How would they do that? To your browser it's just as dangerous as any
other unknown URL

> Do you want them tracking
> you? 

I wouldn't post to this list under my real name if I were afraid of
people knowing that I use Ubuntu.

> Do you want the link to be unaccessible when tinyurl is
> performing updates or down for other reasons? 

See above comment for my expected lifetime of the bug.

> Is the increased latency
> and bandwidth necessary?

Oh come on.

> There are fifty more reasons not to use tinyurl. I will never click
> them. Post the url and be done with it.

Or, you know, you could search Launchpad yourself. Jeez.