What's the point of sending a link as an attachment? Is there some advantage to that? I always send and receive links in the body of the email, or in the tagline... Like your links.
If links are sent as attachments, how can people be expected to know that a link isn't a link, and is really a virus? Netscape Messenger does tell me that it is an MS-DOS program, but that could get overlooked. On a side note... I don't think Netscape automatically decodes these files. My up to date virus program never detects them, and I can't find them outside of Netscape, while looking through my files. I received a pdf file yesterday, so I searched my entire drive for all PDF files, and the one I got in the mail was only found in cache after I used the Acrobat reader. I deleted it, and then clicked on link in Netscape Messenger and then it reappeared in my cache. So I think Netscape decodes attachment s as needed. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > You've obviously never been sent a Windows 'internet link' thing as an > attachment; when viewed in an attachment list, they show up simply as > 'www.whatever.zoink' (possibly renamed by the sender, or with a .lnk on the > end) -- most users aren't going to realise that www.whatever.zoink is not a > link, because most users are either ignorant or just plain stupid. > > Regards, > Ben A L Jemmett. > (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
