Re: the latest MS tech manual

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> > > There was no hyperlink. I sent plain ascii. If your OE email client
made
> > > the link active, you have a problem!
> >
> > Seems a convenience more than a problem... :)
>
> Not really. Seems the link was not *properly* made active, for one.

Prolly 'cuz yer emailer sent it truncated or split... Or could be that OE
broke it up and couldn't reconcile it. Typical MS programmed-stupidity.

> And, if people included a link to an exe, your OE
> would go get it and automagically execute it, to your detriment.

I would never click a link to an executable.

You seen that recent party pics worm? It had a .com ending and a www. start.
It's going to fool lots of people (already has) into clicking it, thinking
it's a web page. I'm not that... uh... unlearned... that I would fall for
such a thing. :)

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