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Re: Waterproofs

#158
From: Sandy
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:05
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"John McLaine" <jmclaine@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
news:3e5188cb_1@news.iprimus.com.au...
>
> John A Ferguson wrote
>
> > > Has this set a new record for ridiculously lengthy URLs.....?
> >
> > Probably not, but all the above could have been replaced with:
> > http://tinyurl.com/5z3t
> >
> > Cheers
> >  JAF
> >
> Thank you John, and please forgive my ignorance. That looks like a handy
> service.
>
> J.
>
>

Here is another one. I have it on my Links bar in IE6 and when I click on it
it makes a short URL of the page I am viewing, saves a bit of time, no
cutting and pasting.


http://www.makeashorterlink.com/

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