Please keep list traffic on the list. On 10/12/2011 3:25 PM, Christian Grunfeld wrote: > I see all genuine (non-spam) mails for subscriptions, checking and > activating accounts showing the long and crapy url ! > And when the url is hidden and text is shown you have 99% phising chance. > It is true that other good mails like paypal ones sends you a button > and it would be bad idea to show the url inline. > > > 2011/10/12 Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com>: >> >> Right. I wasn't referring to your idea, I was replying to someone else >> who mentioned the __SPOOFED_URL rule. >> >> Writing in the real url is certainly an option and maybe not even a bad >> idea in certain cases. However, just keep in mind that this will be >> UGLY. In most cases (of non-spam) the real url is some sort of long, >> obnoxious tracking url. >> >> Do you really want to stick something like this: >> >> http://engage.advancedpublishing.com/t?r=45&c=17003&l=1046&ctl=50580:22813295B3FE26F750565933A5FBF73C4E8B5F87901A15B8&; >> >> in the middle of one of your bosses nicely formatted html email >> newsletters? (Just a random link pulled out of an email >> newsletter...and I've seen much worse) >> >> I think it's better to train people to pay attention to what they >> click. The people who can't be trained to do this are the same people >> who will click the link even if you show them the real url.
The example I gave was taken from a newsletter where the url was hidden. Almost all email newsletters that I have seen do the same thing. Currently, most of the spam I'm seeing does not attempt to hide the url at all. -- Bowie
