On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 09:38:54, =?windows-1253?B?UGhvZWJ1cyBSLiBEb2tvcyAo1u/f4u/yINEuIM30/Orv8ik=?= wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:16:00 -0400, COLIN PARSONS ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>>> >>>> Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!! >>>> Too many worms are installed by clicking on links. >>> On spam yes. >>> What makes you think that my emails (and QL traders) are going to do >>> that sort of thing? >>>> Use Text only and no HTML, if you really want things to be read!! >>> It was text only. >> >> Then a link would't work! > >It would if the text is written in the proper way. We had that >discussion here years ago (Tony made me revisit the RFC and of course >he was right)... > >Most mailers will render "sentences" beginning with "http://..."; to a >link (but only the first line if the link is too long as to be word- >wrapped) You mean, of course, short enough NOT to be word-wrapped, and all the links I use are. > and ALL mailers will display a link if the text has been written >enclosed into a <URL: > construct.... > >So all mailers will make a link out of this: <URL: http://blablah> and >some mailers will even do > ><URL: http://blahblah, but not all... :-) Yes indeed. I remember the exchange well. Unfortunately damned MS Outback does not know how to handle this construct. Ben (my son) keeps complaining when I send him such links. Because of this, I changed the emailshot to include both. That looked too confusing so I reverted to unadorned. Jochen, Jeremy - I will make it clear that these links should be followed in the next emailshot. I hope even Colin will not see them as worm links (8-)# He is quite right about the danger of following links in spam emails. It is very easy to obscure the real destination. On one spam, the link looked OK. Of course I would not follow it, but looking at the raw text (yes it was html) the hidden link in the href was linking to the attached file. I am afraid I even junk the xmas cards from QL people - Basil Lee was a master at sending these. He sent .jpg attachments with no text. I rejected this. He was, it seems, quite annoyed. Nothing I said could convince him that it was -very- easy for worm/virus writers to hijack address books. In any case, what is the point of electronic cards? One cannot successfully print them, and the -whole- point of Xmas cards is to clutter the living room. However rest assured that worm writers could never devise a QL emailshot (8-)# Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
