The URI that tinyurl redirects to is mangled. <br><br>Incidentally, can I point out that link shorteners like tinyurl are (IMHO) a bad idea? They create a single point of failure, for example if the tinyurl server goes down or runs out of money, or a database failure, then all links are lost. Someone looking at the archives of this list in 5 years time after the next dot-com crash might find these links useless. They can harbour malware and spam - the user doesn't know where the link is going to take them. If the tinyurl server/s are hacked, all hell could break loose.<br>
<br>But most of all, I want to see where the link will take me.<br><br>If you have a long URL to send in an email, you can usually prevent it being chopped by putting it inside angle brackets <> e.g. <<a href="http://some.really.long/url/goes.here.that.would.span.across.two.or.more.lines.html">http://some.really.long/url/goes.here.that.would.span.across.two.or.more.lines.html</a>> - most email clients will interpret that without the line breaks.<br>
<br>vik<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Briant, Stephen L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briant.stephen.l@edumail.vic.gov.au">briant.stephen.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">Hey
Roland</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">I
can't get that link to work.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">Steve</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 4 December 2008 11:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Moodle in Schools Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Moodle] Explaining Moodle with Lego</span></p>
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<p>I like the idea behind this . introducing Moodle with Lego.
I might use this at the start of 2009 with our staff briefing or just show the
following YouTube video. Just need to nail down a bigger version so I can read
the smaller text (or read it out as I show it to our staff)<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/66vmmw" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/66vmmw</a><br clear="all">
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Regards Roland<br>
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-- <br>
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br>
<a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
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change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
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