Re: WSJ.com - Stop the Music!

[Bill Frazier <frazier () IASTATE EDU>]

Thank you!  As for the embedded "click here" links, not to put
too fine a point on it, but, even with mail coming from such
an august group, anyone who blindly clicks a link is running
some risk.

Bill


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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:31:25 PDT, Scott Weeks wrote:

Good Morning Everyone!

Can everyone turn off HTML?  Some folks don't use GUI email readers and
this is what it looks like to us:

     <!--
     BODY { BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff } .font-cn { FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR:
     #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } .font-gr {
     FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica,
     sans-serif } .fontbold { FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR:
     #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif }
     .fontsponsor { FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11px; COLOR: #333399;
     FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif }
.fontlargebold {
     FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial,
     Helvetica, sans-serif } .fontspacer { FONT-SIZE: 5px } "Last Oct.
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     the first day the university turned on Icarus, it caught 1,500
     violators. In the months since then, it tracked <snip>
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Also, embedded "click here" links don't work for everyone, so you might
put the URL in addition to the "click here" type links.

Thanks,
scott

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Iowa State University                        fax:   (515) 294-1717
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