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by travisp 6028 days ago
As ubercore mentioned, some email clients will still break up links.

Further, not everything supports html - they are valuable for formats that primarily rely on text:

Text-based emails are a lot easier/better with a url-shortener. IRC conversations are better with a url-shortener. Etc.

On the other hand, they don't seem to be the big deal that everyone is making them out to be.