On 9/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kenny> Hmm, this is a bit odd.... It's almost as if GMail is inferring > Kenny> a hyperlink there, but I can't figure out why or where it came up > Kenny> with the link because the spambayesInfo name doesn't even appear > Kenny> in any of the mail header fields. > > I use gmail as well, though I get the mail delivered via POP and only rarely > use the gmail web interface. I just went back and looked at this and a > couple other threads via the gmail web interface. Not only did I not see or > click URLs with missing "/" characters, I did not encounter any > Info/Unsubscribe links which ended in "/Unsubscribe". They all took me > (correctly, I believe) to the ".../listinfo/spambayes" page. Maybe it's a > browser problem or an interaction between gmail and your web browser. I'm > viewing through Thunderbird 2.0.0.something on Solaris 10 at the moment. I > can check using Safari and T-Bird from my Mac when I get home.
Yeah, it's definately something weird that the GMail web interface is doing with the sigs, and it seems to be browser-specific. I opened the same message thread in both Safari and Firefox 2 on my Mac. For the following line in the signature, I got totally different results: Info/Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Safari: "Info/Unsubscribe" not highlighted as a link. "http://mail.python.org/mailman"; highlighted as a link (note incomplete highlight) linking to "http://mail.pythong.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes";. Firefox: "Info/Unsubscribe" highlighted as a link linking to "http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayesInfo/Unsubscribe";. "http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes"; highlighted as a link to the same complete URL. IIRC, the behavior I got at work on IE in Windows was the same as what I'm seeing in Firefox on the Mac. In looking closer at the Firefox result, I think I see what is happening. The line above the "Info/Unsubscribe" line in the signature is "http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes"; on a line by itself. The "Info/Unsubscribe" appears to have been detected as a broken-line continuation of the URL on the line above and was converted into a single link to the "re-assembled" URL. The "spambayesInfo" comes from the "Info" part being appended. The "/Unsubscribe" then makes it *look* like a direct link to an unsubscribe page, but isn't the actual URL format used by mailman. I can't be sure, but I think it may actually be GMail that is doing the combining. First, I saw it in both Firefox and IE, though not in Safari, so it is not entirely browser-specific. Second, I'm quite sure I actually saw the link in the page source on IE. On the Mac, all I could get from source was the GMail JavaScript, but my IE has a developer extension to show the actual HTML inserted by the JavaScript and that's where it showed up. So apparently it's just a strange GMail web interface glitch. There's obviously nothing wrong with the sig coming from mailman, so nothing to fix. Sorry for the wild goose chase! <0.5 wink> -- Kenny Pitt _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
