re: Yet another reason to never click links in email
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(990 messages posted)
Yes, there already was a www.mícrosoft.com and a www.mìcrosoft.com. In case you
missed it, that was not www.microsoft.com it was:
- www.mícrosoft.com
- www.mìcrosoft.com
Of course, a zoom feature can reveal that.
Now there can be 2 www.ebay.coms and 3 more www.annoyances.orgs because Cyrillic
has its own lower case "a" that looks just like the ASCII "a" but is somewhere else
and will not be read as the same site. I heard of this specific problem about 4
years ago when ICANN rejected Cyrillic.
But on the other hand, a friend of mine sent me an ecard as she always has at Halloween.
I used that link. It's as I figured out a long time ago that with computers a lot
of it depends on who you can trust.
I keep different email IDs for different purposes. In one club I am in the new chairman
of my committee has decided, against my warning, to put his own ID on the club's
webpage. I told him about the ID I had created with the committee's name a year
ago so I could filter commercial contacts with our work. I only had a couple but
it has accumulated a good deal of spam. One of them was for yRolex
watches. That could be useful. If we could get them for 25¢ apiece we could give
them out to every participant. But no, he's going to get himself spammed up. Maybe
worse.
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