On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 12:16, Farley, Peter x23353 < 0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Wow, talk about "nanny state" link protection - have a gander at the > hugely complex mess that René's perfectly reasonable links to the IDCP and > Marist copies of Mr. Ehrman's opus turned into below. Someone else's web > link safety filter added "https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com"; > around René's link and then my employer's filter added " > https://urldefense.com/v3"; around that filter. > > I know it is important to keep the untrained masses from clicking on > dangerous links, but this is getting really ridiculous. > As I've suggested here before, I think LSOFT could provide some good added value by removing as many layers of this crud as possible - certainly for anything that goes in the archives. The safelinks and urldefense ones contain the original URL only lighly obfuscated, and so could be easily dealt with. (In fact there is a site https://www.o365atp.com that deobfuscates the Microsoft ones, and I think I've seen one also for urldefense.com .) I suppose they have to worry that someone will sue them if a "bad" URL creeps through. The main thing that would suffer from inaccuracy is discussions like this of these very problems! Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
