Yesterday John Tuttle wrote:

> So, one way to reduce the possibility of the MMDigest getting
> identified as spam is to eliminate the hyperlinks...  In other
> words, by simply changing the address from 'http://www.player-
> care.com' to 'www.player-care.com' it will no longer appear to
> be a hyperlink and the filters will only 'see' it as text.

A good idea, but it won't always work.  In the newest versions of
Microsoft Outlet Express, the program recognizes a URL without the
'http://' prefix as a valid URL, and automatically reattaches the
prefix internally, causing the site to come up if clicked upon anyway.

But in my Internet Explorer, formatting a URL inside inverted commas
makes it appear as plain text, not as a hyperlink.  Thus:
'http://www.player-care.com' looks like ordinary text, whereas:
www.player-care.com automatically appears in blue, and functions just
like the whole URL, as if it had the http:// prefix.

If people use this device, the recipient would still have to manually
copy the address, minus the single quotation marks, into their browser
address line, to make it functional.

Richard Vance

 [ Because the "helpful features" of Microsoft products are not
 [ controlled by an international agreement, the results with other
 [ vendor's email programs and web browsers cannot be predicted.
 [ -- Robbie