Re: [CH] plain-text links (was Spam-bots)
Tina Brooks (shoestring_louise@yahoo.com)
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:29:43 -0700 (PDT)
I'm not really sure that you really have much control over that do you?
I figure if I click, I deserve whatever comes of it... by that token, I do a mouseover to see where the supposed link wants to take me BEFORE I click... It doesn't guarantee the link is safe, but when I couple timidity with judging the security of the sender... well, that increases my chances of a good link.
To my knowledge, I've only been suckered once... But my AVP caught it before I did.
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----- Original Message ----
From: Brent Thompson <brent@kanha.hpl.hp.com>
To: KnoxBill <knoxbill@comcast.net>
Cc: Tina Brooks <shoestring_louise@yahoo.com>; Jeff Schickowski <jeff@ulupica.com>; Jose Cisneros <jccisn@gmail.com>; chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:25:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] plain-text links (was Spam-bots)
> 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