yep it does

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:27 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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>   > See explanation Yuri Khan has made earlier.  My package, like said in
>   > comment, makes a request for a URL produced by concatenation of
>   > shorten-url-base with a URL passed as an argument and inserts data
> returned
>   > in response in current buffer.  It's up to web server to produce
> shortened
>   > URL.
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> I don't entirely follow that.  Are you saying that your code does
> contact the abbreviation server to define the shortened URL?  If so,
> it makes sense.
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