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Andrew McKay wrote:

That looks like a good suggestion - have you thought of suggesting it
to the owner of tinyurl.com?

I haven't, no.

I have a feeling that makeashorterlink has been around longer than tinyurl.com
but I may be wrong. I can't believe that they are not aware of each other
so I assume they have chosen to differ in this way for a reason.

Each to their own and all that.

Darren