[conspire] Links

[Ehud Kaldor]

the links you provided were of legitimate businesses you know, but i 
did not. and i doubt if there is not one more who didn't. and the 
practice of making similar urls, such as
    
http://www.lnktak.com/news-events/new/shuttleworth-invests-1-million-in-ceph-storage-startup-inktank/
is again, very common.

but to the more general point, imagine this: you are walking around 
kicking people in the crouch, and when i comment on it, you say: it's 
fine, i know all these people and they all were jock protectors. while 
your reply does explain why you think no harm will come from your 
actions (and it might well be), i still think it is not a very smart 
one. but obviously, you know better than i in that as well. take care.

Cheers,
Ehud



On Sun 16 Sep 2012 11:31:07 PM PDT, Adrien Lamothe wrote:
> >>the text in the link is meaningless, as it can hold some other
> address. like this:
> http://www.verybadURL/fooled/you/to/click/me
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> Do you think you can craft such a url, and have it point to
> linuxmafia.com (or google.com, or yahoo.com), then share it with us?
> Please do, if you can, without using a url shortener (since you
> example above does not.)
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> The two urls in my post are to legitmate business domains, with no url
> shorteners used. Very easy to verify them as legitimate.
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> Let's say I added some introductory text, as you suggest. Would such
> text really make it any better? (especially if the urls were indeed spam.)
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> Thank you for your concern, I'm sure everyone on the list feels much
> safer now.
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