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It could do caching. That would be nice in case a shortener went down.

If it did caching, it would also act as a proxy. That would be nice if I decided to build a greasemonkey script/firefox add-on to automatically unshorten things; I wouldn't necessarily ping the counters attached to every shortened URL that loads with a page.

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