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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. -- Alan Amesbury University of Minnesota
Current thread:
- URL switching in e-mails Justin Sipher (Jan 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Ken Connelly (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Joel Rosenblatt (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails David Gillett (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Justin Sipher (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Alan Amesbury (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Alan Amesbury (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Valdis Kletnieks (Jan 03)
- Re: URL switching in e-mails Cal Frye (Jan 04)