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- <li><em>date</em>: Sun Feb 15 14:15:55 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)</li>
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Yes, this is because of all the phishing scams which expoloit this.
This was posted to bugtraq a few weeks ago, more info is here:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834489";>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;834489</a>
It's also interesting to note that, despite the fact that many browsers
support this URL syntax, it's not valid according to the RFCs, as
pointed out in this message:
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/352429/2004-01-29/2004-02-04/0";>http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/352429/2004-01-29/2004-02-04/0</a>
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Jason Day jasonday at
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"Of course I'm paranoid, everyone is trying to kill me."
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