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Re: URL switching in e-mails


From: Alan Amesbury <amesbury () OITSEC UMN EDU>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:15:58 -0600

Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

That's why the Slashdot code would output "[xycum.com]" which would hopefully
look suspicious to the user... ;)



Ah, I misunderstood; I thought it would display the entire hostname.
Yes, displaying 2ld.tld would probably tip off most users.  I'm willing
to bet that I could still find one who'd fail to see the difference,
though.  Any takers?  :-(

Thanks for the clarification.


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Alan Amesbury
University of Minnesota

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