add short-and-sweet as a separate desideratum from cut-and-pasteable
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## other features
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## other features
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* Short and not so ugly. This is important to enable cut-and-paste (see
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below), but also just because people are suspicious and averse to long
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and ugly URLs. See #217 for notes in which dozens of people have
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spontaneously complained about the current URLs. By contrast, tiny
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URLs such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc. are ubiquitous nowadays; users
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have no problem with those -- see Twitter.
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* Enable convenient cut-and-paste. If caps are too long they'll wrap in
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* Enable convenient cut-and-paste. If caps are too long they'll wrap in
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email. If they contain lots of word-breaking characters then you have to
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email. If they contain lots of word-breaking characters then you have to
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drag after you've double clicked (this is probably ok). If the word-broken
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drag after you've double clicked (this is probably ok). If the word-broken
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