- Microsoft has fix to the URL spoofing bug!!!!!!!
- Posted by Tim Smith on January 30th, 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/default...5Bln%5D;833786
This ranks right up there with the solution to the "begin" bug (tell people
who send you email to not start lines with "begin").
(Dang...now it is decision time...should I take Daeron out of my COLA
killfile so I can see how he will manage to interpret this post as me being
pro-Microsoft/anti-Linux? :-)).
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--Tim Smith
- Posted by Jesse F. Hughes on January 30th, 2004
Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> writes:
Not fair. Microsoft has lots more solutions than that. Here they
are.
,----
| To workaround this problem:
|
| * Do not start messages with the word "begin" followed by two spaces.
| * Use only one space between the word "begin" and the following data.
| * Capitalize the word "begin" so that it is reads "Begin."
| * Use a different word such as "start" or "commence."
`----
<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265230>
In fact, it's worse than you suggest. They only tell you how to
prevent writing "offending" messages. They forgot to tell you to tell
your friends to follow this advice, too.
Hardly solves the problem, namely "When you use Outlook Express, you
may receive a message in which the text is incorrectly interpreted as
an attachment that does not have any data."
(Use a different word! Who needs to write emails including the word
"begin" anyway?)
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"If you have a really big idea, you can get a measure of how big it is
by how much people resist the obvious. From what I've seen, I have a
REALLY, REALLY, *REALLY*, BIG DISCOVERY!!!"
--James Harris, on being ignored
- Posted by Daeron on January 30th, 2004
Tim Smith wrote:
If you stoped mentioning me I would not have to read these daft posts!
Why not go over onto comp.sys.mac.advocacy and tell them the one button
mouse is defective.
- Posted by The Ghost In The Machine on January 30th, 2004
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tim Smith
<reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com>
wrote
on Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:24:07 GMT
<H1sSb.2534$jH6.2517@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink. net>:
Looks like the page is in the shop.
"The Knowledge Base (KB) Article You Requested Is Currently Not
Available."
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#191, ewill3@earthlink.net
It's still legal to go .sigless.
- Posted by Tom B. on January 30th, 2004
Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
They expect users to copy and paste the following to check whether the
URL is spoofed:
javascript:alert("The actual URL is:\t\t" + location.protocol + "//" +
location.hostname + "/" + "\nThe address URL is:\t\t" + location.href
+ "\n" + "\nIf the server names do not match, this may be a spoof.");
Repeat after me, Microsoft - integration is bad, seperation is good.
