what is this strange link

[Stephen]

you try contacting the admin of the domain about it?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 at 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 at 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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>>
>>
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