> -----Original Message----- > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com] > > This is an issue that comes up on this list occasionally. It sounds like a > good > idea at first, but when you start looking into it, you find that there is WAY > too > much legitimate email that does this for the rule to be useful.
Yeah. There's an awful lot of newsletter, opt-in advertisement, and even transactional mail traffic that uses URL redirectors for click-tracking purposes, and far too often they'll put the destination URL (or a simplified form of it) in as the link text. It's a horrible practice, IMO, since it essentially trains people to ignore what should be a major phishing indicator, but it's also very common. --Kelson Vibber
