On June 29, 2018 2:38:01 PM PDT, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I agree with Mark Roberts sentiments.
>
>Interesting question Ann. So I decided to try it from my gmail
>account. I typed http://www.theautodolly.com (one of my employer's web
>sites) into the Gmail subject line and sent it to two recipents:
>Myself via a different Gmail account and my work account which I
>access via Outlook on a Windows machine.
>As I expected, the subject line was NOT clickable in Gmail.
>However, I was surprised to see it as a blue underlined link at the
>top of the opened Outlook mail message. Clicking it did indeed take me
>to a web site.
>I don't believe I've ever seen that before and did not know it was
>possible.
>
>My next question would be whether there is some way to put code in a
>subject line so that a link APPEARED to go one place, but actually
>went another. THAT would be especially dangerous, as you might think
>you were going somewhere safe and instead be doing the opposite.
>Outlook does not show you the actual destination of a link in the
>subject line (anywhere that I can see).
Maybe with an http href tag.
<a href=target url> pretend url </a>
>
>Darren Addy
>Kearney, Nebraska
>
>On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Mark Roberts
><postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote:
>> Whether or not putting a link in the subject like *works* is neither
>> here nor there. It's not accepted practice to send links that way and
>> I'd say it's a bad idea from a security standpoint for anyone
>> *receiving* such a message to click a link in a subject line. Too
>easy
>> to get in the habit of clicking such links and eventually get sent
>> somewhere bad by any of the all-too-numerous scumbags on the net.
>>
>> Tell your friend to stop it for everyone's sake.
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