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> only the archiving complaint.

Only partially: to other archiving services, a shortened URL from this shortener which also happens to be an archiving service is the same thing as if the shortener didn't provide archival.

The only solution I see is that archive services resolve these shortened URLs when they archive a page and archive the result with it. The second best and probably more reasonable solution is that they maintain a directory (mapping) of shortened URLs to real URLs assuming the mapping does not change.

But one can see it's rapidly a mess right?




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