Re: [Asrg] Textbook example

Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> Thu, 26 June 2003 18:20 UTC

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:11:07 -0400

At 2:14 AM -0500 6/24/03, gep2@terabites.com wrote:
>Now, it IS true I suppose that the spammer could have used a 
>non-hyperlinked URL
>and asked the recipient to copy-and-paste it, but they're still probably going

All modern email systems automatically link anything that looks like 
a URL, whether or not the email is in HTML format.  No cut and paste 
required.
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Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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