On Thursday, December 30, 2004, 3:50:44 PM, Kevin McGrail wrote:
However, going further, an option to process URIs such as bob-munged.com might be useful ESPECIALLY for the main TLD's .com, .net and .org plus .info and .biz and perhaps a few more. If it's not too painful to relive, this is an annoyance like the recent rash of SPAMs that don't have valid URLs. While the links may not work, it still clutters the inbox.
So I believe a key mantra is to reduce the inbox to valid emails and SURBLs are very effective at doing that. Perhaps the FPs of doing this change are small?
I think it's already been evaluated and decided against for a number of reasons. IIRC a major one was additional CPU time for diminishing returns. There are a lot more .somethings to check than http:// and www. Generally the behavior of MUAs is followed, where it makes sense to do so. Also there's a lot more spam with functional URIs than plain domains.
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."