I appreciate the info but I'm not sure it explains anything. My suspicion
is that it might be a link to some embedded malware or something nasty. The
fact that hovering the mouse over the link shows the resolution to be
"about:blank" and that there was an image attached to the email make me
wonder if it might point to something embedded in the image that purports to
be the "about:blank" page but also contains some kind of malware.
I did not want to click on it even though I was on linux. I did want to try
to figure it out in case I should let my friend know about it (he runs
windows). I have no idea how to figure that out.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM, James Finstrom <
jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) schemes, "cid:" and "mid:" allow
> references to messages and the body parts of messages. For example,
> within a single multipart message, one HTML body part might include
> embedded references to other parts of the same message.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2111.txt
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Got an email from a friend. It includes a link that looks strange and
>> seems to have no place in the context of the email. Hovering the cursor
>> over it seems to show that it resolves to "about:blank". Here is is with
>> some spaces inserted to make it not be active:
>>
>> cid : 82 E5A786026D48CFB93EDE028A88F0EB @ SportdocPC
>>
>>
>> Anyone know?
>>
>>
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