[LINK] The bad guys have won

[Rick Welykochy]

Ivan Trundle wrote:

> Blimey, Rick - my assessment is that you take greater risks than I ever 
> do... (warning bells would be going off with 'undisclosed recipients' - 
> in this instance of a purported one-on-one transaction - for starters, 
> but if I didn't know the person, even more so).

As I said, I was in a rush and did not notice "undisclosed recipients" ...
if I had seen that, I would have binned the email pronto. On elives and
learns by one misteaks!


> Incidentally, is it just a MacOS feature, or do other mail applications 
> show what the REAL link is when hovering over a supposed identified URL 
> whilst reading the mail message? Further, do other mail apps allow you 
> to switch easily between 'summary' header info, and full headers?

I can speak for the Mozilla suite of email and browsers: when you hover over
a link, you can see the link target in the status bar. This is platform
independent.

This really is Browsing 101 stuff. Users need to be taught that there are
two parts to a link:

<a href=reallink>text</a>

"reallink" is the actual URL of where you will wind up. You will only see
it if your browser or email client allows you to hover and view it in the
status bar or similar. Or if you  read the actual HTML code, i.e. "view source".

"text" is what you see in your browser and email client, and is what is used
to fool the naive user, like me in one case ;-(

The two are in no way related to each other, other than the fact that they
are part of the one HTML incantation.

cheers
rickw



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