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		steilpass on Aug 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: rel="shortlink" - URL shortening that doesn't hurt... http://news.com/And-What-If-I-Start-To-Encode-My-Message-In-...?

kevindication on Aug 17, 2009 | [–]

http://it.will.be/hard-to-read

tlrobinson on Aug 17, 2009 | [–]

The anchor text would still count against the message length, but the href would not. Just have some simple syntax, like markdown's [text](url)

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