Interesting eBay auction

Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Dr Curious
gently breathed:

If instead you use tinyurl -

http://tinyurl.com/

then unlike with qurl and makeshorterlink you don't
get a redirect screen in the middle. Which is neat.

It's anything but neat - it's a massive security hole. With the other
two you get a chance to find out where the link is going to take you
before you are actually sent there and thus have a chance to back out if
the real URL looks "dodgy", "non-work-safe", "not in front of the kids"
or whatever.

With services which don't warn you where you're going first there's a
huge risk of being maliciously directed to a scam, hardcore pr0n site,
or just about anything else.

But is probably also why relatively people see to know
about tinyurl.

Members of one of the groups I read actively discourage people from
using it for the reason's I've outlined above.

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Pyromancer writes:
Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as Dr Curious
gently breathed:

If instead you use tinyurl -

http://tinyurl.com/

then unlike with qurl and makeshorterlink you don't
get a redirect screen in the middle. Which is neat.

With services which don't warn you where you're going first there's a
huge risk of being maliciously directed to a scam, hardcore pr0n site,
or just about anything else.

Or indeed something which would attract the attentions of the
law. That would be unpleasant.

But is probably also why relatively people see to know
about tinyurl.

Members of one of the groups I read actively discourage people from
using it for the reason's I've outlined above.

Indeed, I'd only click it with people I trust.

A

Jon Senior wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ry=72573&item=
3688720388&rd=1

Even if the frame is sh*t, if the price doesn't rise too much it'd be a
good way to buy a 105 groupset.

But it will...all the serious bids come in the last 30 seconds.

Zog The Undeniable opined the following...
Jon Senior wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ry=72573&item=
3688720388&rd=1

Even if the frame is sh*t, if the price doesn't rise too much it'd be a
good way to buy a 105 groupset.

But it will...all the serious bids come in the last 30 seconds.

I know but it's worth watching none the less. I'd be interested myself
but I've already got the same groupset on what is (I suspect) a better
frame! Between that and the auction for a Giant TCR frameset you could
potentially get a high quality road bike for considerably less than the
actual item normally costs.

Jon

Dr Curious opined the following...
Even if what you suggest were true, how exactly can telling people
how other people view them, be considered hurtful?

Walk up to the next overweight person that you find and tell them that
you find their physique revolting. If you wouldn't do this, then don't
do it here. Simple.

Jon

Jon Senior jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk writes:

Dr Curious opined the following...
Even if what you suggest were true, how exactly can telling people
how other people view them, be considered hurtful?

Walk up to the next overweight person that you find and tell them that
you find their physique revolting. If you wouldn't do this, then don't
do it here. Simple.

They'd actually have to be pretty overweight before I found them
revolting, mind. Still, I wouldn't do it.

And as for being resentful of people who don't live from metaphorical
hand-to-mouth in terms of getting enough food inside the body and
digested, I'd never go up to anyone overweight and tell them how lucky
they are. Although the next person to tell me it's 'holy' not to eat
will find their nose broken in double quick time.

A

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:27:42 +0100, "Dr Curious"
wrote in message
:

I'll tell you something though Nankerville, originality doesn't
exactly appear to be your strong suit somehow, does it?

Said the man who apparently thinks deliberately spelling others' names
wrongly is original...

Its my little "joke of the week", actually Guy.

How thay all laughed. Nearly.

And a sight more original that trailing the same sig around
behind me for more than five years, I'd imagine.

Who cares. A sig is just a sig.

But then for someone without the courage to ever actually say what
they mean, it would be something of a necessity I'd have thought.
Even on a cycling group.

I'll say what I mean if you like: you're a ****wit.

First up you simply repeated parrott fashion everything MacClancey
said about me. That I'm a "****wit" and that I'm "paranoid"

But did he say anything contentious?

But Ambrose did apologise.
So are you claiming Ambrose was wrong to aplogise then ?

Ambrose can do what he wants.

Guy
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Dr Curious opined the following...
Nope. All the minions who are otherwise unsure of themselves
address their posts through you. And you reward them with a
reply. It's quite noticeable.

?

Whereas as always, the more independantly minded posters are
a law unto themselves and may stay aloof, or form shifting
allegiances.

??

But the support of the minions is vital in the end.

This is a newsgroup, not a warzone. My "allegiances" lie with anyone who
isn't currently arguing with me. That can (and does) change within the
course of single thread. This does not mean that I dislike people who
disagree with me, just that from the point of view of "debate" I cannot
logically be "allied" to them.

I doubt that that makes me very different from anyone else here who has
ever argued the toss.

Jon

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:56:33 GMT, Graeme
wrote in message
:

Don't cancel the order, I'll have it. It'll do perfectly for my larger than
life effigy. I needed something to provide just the right level of shine to
the top of the head ;-) And don't get me started on all those walruses that
I needed to slaughter to replicate that 'tache. :-)

Whassat? Are you impyling I'm a slaphead? Not so!

Guy
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:12:43 +0100, "Dr Curious"
wrote in message
:

Another Curiously clue-free assertion. Leader? I'm just
zis guy, you know?

Nope. All the minions who are otherwise unsure of themselves
address their posts through you. And you reward them with a
reply. It's quite noticeable.

Hmmm. You really are a ****wit, aren't you?

Guy
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