Aircraft Winch

Flyers,

I finally had it with hangar rent increases and moved to a tie-down. So now
I have a Ramsey ATV2500 wireless remote winch for sale on ebay.com. It is
great for pulling a plane into the hangar. I used it for 1 1/2 years and it
really saved my back.

Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMESE%3AIT

Kobra

("Kobra" wrote)
Here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMESE%3AIT


This long link happens to work for me tonight - most do not.

Please consider using:

www.tinyURL.com or www.makeashorterlink.com

....and then post the "shorter" link to the newsgroup. Thanks.


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message ...
This long link happens to work for me tonight - most do not.

Please consider using:

www.tinyURL.com or www.makeashorterlink.com

...and then post the "shorter" link to the newsgroup. Thanks.

I prefer to see the link I'm clicking on... If it gets split, big deal, *I*
know how to cut and paste... grin

"Montblack" wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...rd=1,1&item=45
48358271&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT

This long link happens to work for me tonight - most do not.

If you format a link in brackets it tends to survive a couple of
quoting levels. It's not a guarantee but then you always have the
original post.

Please consider using:

www.tinyURL.com or www.makeashorterlink.com

The biggest problem I have with those services is that they don't
archive well. Usenet is very well archived, you can still find posts
from over ten years ago; including references to websites. Try that with
a "tinyurl". How long do they keep those "tiny" references?

Cheers,
Jens

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Jens Krueger wrote:

"Montblack" wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...rd=1,1&item=45
48358271&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT

This long link happens to work for me tonight - most do not.


If you format a link in brackets it tends to survive a couple of
quoting levels. It's not a guarantee but then you always have the
original post.


Please consider using:

www.tinyURL.com or www.makeashorterlink.com


The biggest problem I have with those services is that they don't
archive well. Usenet is very well archived, you can still find posts
from over ten years ago; including references to websites. Try that with
a "tinyurl". How long do they keep those "tiny" references?

So give both the long and the tiny url. Tinyurl automatically puts its
result into your clipboard so it's easy to do.

xyzzy wrote:

The biggest problem I have with those services is that they don't
archive well. Usenet is very well archived, you can still find posts
from over ten years ago; including references to websites. Try that with
a "tinyurl". How long do they keep those "tiny" references?

So give both the long and the tiny url. Tinyurl automatically puts its
result into your clipboard so it's easy to do.

So what's the point of having tinyurl then? Because a broken newsreader
cant handle ""-formatted urls forces everybody else to quote a url now
twice? If your newsreader doesn't open a web browser with Google after
clicking on this http://www.google.com, then you need another
newsreader, not tinyurl or whatever... ;-)

Cheers,
Jens


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"Jens Krueger" wrote in message
...
If your newsreader doesn't open a web browser with Google after
clicking on this http://www.google.com, then you need another
newsreader, not tinyurl or whatever... ;-)

Either that or learn how to cut-n-paste...

"Jens Krueger" wrote in message
...
If you format a link in brackets it tends to survive a couple of
quoting levels.

Even a broken URL isn't hard to reconstruct. Regardless...

[...]
The biggest problem I have with those services is that they don't
archive well.

Define "archive well".

Usenet is very well archived, you can still find posts
from over ten years ago; including references to websites. Try that with
a "tinyurl". How long do they keep those "tiny" references?

As far as I know, forever. makeashorterlink.com specifically says in their
FAQ that, as long as they are around, their links will work. tinyurl.com
doesn't have an FAQ, or any real documentation beyond "here's how to use our
service" as near as I can tell. But I would be surprised if it's different.

What makes you believe that the shortened URLs age at all, never mind in an
unreasonably short period of time. I think it's more likely that the
original URL itself will go out of date before the shorter reference URL
does. The web is filled with dead links.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...
The web is filled with dead links.

I guess the term for that is "HTTP roadkill"...

Peter Duniho wrote:

The biggest problem I have with those services is that they don't
archive well.

Define "archive well".

As long as source (news post) and target (webpage) exist.

Usenet is very well archived, you can still find posts
from over ten years ago; including references to websites. Try that with
a "tinyurl". How long do they keep those "tiny" references?

As far as I know, forever.

Well...

makeashorterlink.com specifically says in their
FAQ that, as long as they are around, their links will work.

....that could be significantly shorter than "forever". ;-)

Anyways, my point was that introducing link-hosts should not be the cure
for broken newsreader, like the response to the OP suggested.

Cheers,
Jens

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