>JeffM wrote: >>People who still click links in email deserve what they get. >>(Phished.) >> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >Not so fast. Not all links are bad, >and there are good practices that help you avoid that. > ...like not clicking on the links. If you are going to follow a link in email, cut it and paste it into your browser. With URLs now allowed to use e.g. Cyrillic, things are *not always* what they appear --even when you hover over links and they look legit, these days, maybe not.
>For example, if a colleague at ABC Corp, >whom you already know and trust, > ...and whose address book got hijacked yesterday. >A similar argument can be made for attachments. > The big problem with attachments is that in order to encode them (so they can be sent via a medium meant for plain text) they take more bandwidth and storage space than they would if you used an APPROPRIATE protocol to offer those. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
