FW: [Design] Re: url wrapping in email (Was: High End Email)

[Steven Healey]

>> One thing that we might do is give support for bracketed URLs.

>What if:
>
>Mozilla/Netscape and MS/Open Office already recognize url's and turns 
>them into links. Going one step farthe, substitute the text version of 
>the url with a generic "link" icon. Something samll like an emo-icon.

Because I will then have to take the time to configure my anti-virus scanner
to strip out those link icons, and I will lose the ability to use URLs in
incoming mail!  Hidden links are absolutely devastating from a security
standpoint.

sPh