Hal Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> Had you considered a scheme in which the original
> domain name is part of the shortened URL?
> 
>    http://rubyurl.com/www.yahoo.com:ajZkXDls
> 
> That way we could at least confirm what domain we
> were directed to.

+1 - slashdot has had great success in cutting down on shock site
trolling by annotating every link with its domain in cleartext.

martin