"Resolving Link Obfuscation"

[rooster]

I was gazing at my latest rendering from the friendly SC parser, (much in the way a Labrador Retriever might contemplate the sublime elegance of Theorem 34), when it fell to my wondering eye, my email addy; plain as could be.

“Resolving link obfuscation”, apparently resolves the:

“To unsubscribe from this mailing list: ….. or send a blank message to: …..”, HTTP links in which my addie is embedded.

I have a vague recollection this has come up in a forum before, but I couldn’t relocate a posting. I am fairly confident this exposition is rather safe against malevolent misuse in these precincts; besides, if Richter et. al. has got it already, the horse is, “pretty fer gone ‘cross’n t’meader”, by now, anyway; eh?

I am just mentioning this for novelty’s sake; or in case anyone has thoughts on such incidences apropos their own parses.

[Farelf]

<snip>I have a vague recollection this has come up in a forum before, but I couldn’t relocate a posting. <snip>

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Indeed it has, if you refer to the generality of addys remaining embedded in reports. This is but one of very many, looking specifically at how a reporter might be fingered (as it were):

http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...findpost&p=2421

I mention this one in particular in the event you have not before been pointed to "The Register", one of many reasons one has to be grateful to Jeff G. If visions of Miss June Allyson still bedevil your slumbers, The Register might at least make your wakefulness worthwhile (or perhaps transmogrify you into a conspiracy theorist).

Actually another link might be appropriate, Mikey made a useful attempt at "listing the ways" in a prior posting: http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...findpost&p=1571

[Jeff G.]

Thanks for the mention, but I was just repeating what John Malmberg had written in one of the *gasp* newsgroups. I did find that article in The Register to be terribly amusing and on point, which is part of why I posted his reference to it.

[rooster]

http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...findpost&p=2421

'zooks !!!

I got my first computer, Feb 14 2004, exactly one week before that post appeared. I must have accidently read it (every thing I did for the first couple of months was accidental).

I remembered the June Allison reference, too. Like many of my xx bretheren who hit puberty in the 50's, it came naturally to associate that 'bunny-like' air of congenial humility achieved by that enchanting overbite... with women in general. This impression proved to be inaccurate; her 'reruns' nothwithstanding.

At time of reading, I thought the intenet was pretty gentle place; too.

Thanks for the Memories,

rod

[Wazoo]

http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...findpost&p=2421

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Guessing at a cut/paste gone bad, I found the "June Allison" reference at http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...indpost&p=26700 .... which should make your intended reference point to something before that .. but 2421 doesn't seem to fly for some reason ...

http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...2421entry2421 ?????

[Farelf]

For those who've not done so, it is worth revisiting the Verity Stob reports. The original link was to the second of the series (possibly the funniest) but more seem to have been added ("to be continued" links). Starts at:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/12/st...ew_with_a_bulk/

Much more of interest at theregister, apart from the unnecessary comments on the Poms' victory in the recent Ashes test. I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said something along the lines of, "The English, not being a very spiritual race, were obliged to invent cricket in order to gain some notion of eternity." Ah, if only the old boy could see the way the game is played today he might be forced to reconsider.