Certainly a counterproductive decision for Fermilab and the mailing list users. Not to mention privacy-violation redirecting to 3rd party trackers... I'd admit with this URL mangling, I'd be more reluctant to click URLs in the emails :)
Let's see if these gets mangled: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.google.com&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=UpAH2qwjSm-yxXqncllWyqMys2EQksAO_aru1jg0wRg&s=N3bPkxmj6XWXuPdnXdgs7j52SQqTSen79RfajLTfVFY&e= "https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.google.com&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=UpAH2qwjSm-yxXqncllWyqMys2EQksAO_aru1jg0wRg&s=N3bPkxmj6XWXuPdnXdgs7j52SQqTSen79RfajLTfVFY&e=" google.com cnn.com cbc.ca "github.com" https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__localhost&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=UpAH2qwjSm-yxXqncllWyqMys2EQksAO_aru1jg0wRg&s=uU1UAXuZX-nKjbS9OG0vbhA8YAwkSQL4wGTyJqFOXaw&e= and URLs in sig... -s On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:45 PM, P. Larry Nelson <lnel...@illinois.edu> wrote: > Hmmm, my copy sure doesn't look like HTML format. > I surrender.... > > P. Larry Nelson wrote on 7/24/18 1:44 PM: >> >> Same test only now I've composed in HTML format. >> Same URL: >> (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=EYDBVOo8z2PATbw_pAw6GKNYkFSqZ79zzdFhPDE8sko&s=36AasAKnjw3JX0UK8z2_eOOgWRhxPGfavvUN_pCuhXY&e=) >> >> P. Larry Nelson wrote on 7/24/18 1:40 PM: >>> >>> I concur with the previous posts about ProofPoint. >>> The U of I campus implemented this several years ago. >>> I complained. Fell on deaf ears. >>> >>> Implemented by our security folks. Rationale being that 99% of the >>> campus email users (i.e., using the campus Exchange server) are either too >>> lazy and/or too unaware of the dangers of blindly clicking on a URL in their >>> emails. >>> >>> However, U of I email with a URL in the message body shows the real URL >>> (in blue and underlined - unless the URL is hidden via the html "<a href=" >>> construct), but when you move the mouse pointer over the URL, (at least in >>> Thunderbird) the bottom horizontal box of T-bird (I'm sure it has a more >>> official name) then shows the long obfuscated urldefense URL. >>> >>> So, in our case, one can just copy/paste the URL in the message body to a >>> browser and NOT go thru ProofPoint. >>> >>> The other aspect of the U of I's ProofPoint config is that it only >>> affects email composed in HTML format, and since I generally loathe doing >>> that unless absolutely necessary, I almost always compose in ASCII mode. >>> >>> So, I suppose this might be a test of how Fermilab has implemented >>> ProofPoint as I will now include a rather well known URL here >>> (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.google.com_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=EYDBVOo8z2PATbw_pAw6GKNYkFSqZ79zzdFhPDE8sko&s=36AasAKnjw3JX0UK8z2_eOOgWRhxPGfavvUN_pCuhXY&e=) >>> and see how it arrives in your inbox. >>> >>> :-) >>> >> > > > -- > P. Larry Nelson (217-693-7418) | IT Administrator Emeritus > 810 Ventura Rd. | High Energy Physics Group > Champaign, IL 61820 | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. > MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hep.physics.illinois.edu_home_lnelson_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=EYDBVOo8z2PATbw_pAw6GKNYkFSqZ79zzdFhPDE8sko&s=8P7D0JjiUCaWC6pRi-O7YHxf0ZnDitNCQLFRp9iRMbU&e= > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson > -- Serguei Mokhov https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cs.concordia.ca_-7Emokhov&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=UpAH2qwjSm-yxXqncllWyqMys2EQksAO_aru1jg0wRg&s=dOjjGinCrUtv5r0Bsn7KrONlWvlxe-GL000kqcVjWxI&e= cciff.ca | mdreams-stage.com marf.sf.net | sf.net/projects/marf