Re: [CH] plain-text links (was Spam-bots)
Brent Thompson (brent@kanha.hpl.hp.com)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:25:01 -0700
> interesting...we know that the blah link above is not in html, 'cos it's
> not allowed in the list, but thunderbird lets me click on it as tho it
> was...and in fact, takes me to "blah, blah, blah.com -- your
> entertainment resource"...
Wow, I'm sure glad I didn't accidentally arbitrarily make up the URL of
some malicious site. Well, assuming blah.com isn't, of course.
I'm thinking it is not actually a good thing to have browser guess what
"must have been intended" when URL was typed, or closest approximation it
happens to find, then automatically take you there. Introduces a pretty
big level of arbitrariness in this age of compromised websites.
--- Brent