(In response to news:9ff6d7ad2d50f4065516b94022d20e82 / fhwang.net by Francis 
Hwang)

> It's interesting, anyway ... I wonder what'll happen if tinyurl.com 
> ever decides to shut down for whatever reason. Maybe they could just 
> release some massive file that was a hash of key strings to URIs? 
> Probably nasty privacy issues there. It's like they've become a part of 
> the infrastructure in some small way.

Thinking of that, nothing stops you from creating that file yourself, given  
that the urls are .. short ;) 

k

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