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OK, I've just encountered this in action.
A good idea but I've encountered a hiccup.

I attempted to link to

_ttp://www.webtender.com/iforum/message.cgi?id=31174

And found myself with a link labelled
"[Trix] Please Don't Crush My Hopes And Dreams"

... which turns out to have been id=3117
Confused the hell out of me as I'd never seen the conversion in action before 
and it looked totally random!

Sooo, figuring that there was some off-by-one error in the url parsing, I've 
hacked it back into shape by appending a spare &
_ttp://www.webtender.com/iforum/message.cgi?id=31174&
[DrinkBoy] Re: Absolut Vodka - Too good for cocktails?

I've got in the habit of chopping extra info of Urls both for tidyness and to 
remove context from them. EG linking to a page I retrieved from a search does 
not need the keywords highlighted.
In this case, removing the extra sort_by parameters confused your system :-(

Anyway, just some user testing feedback.

Cheers, .dan.