Comments on: Mail 3.0: Links in subject now clickable

By: JB

JB — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:15:27 +0000

Why not have them clickable? Because it makes life easier for phishers and other spammers in exchange for marginal legitimate benefit. I’m in the anti-spam industry, and I can tell you that if the only thing we have to filter on is the subject for some percentage of spam, it’s going to make our jobs harder, our catch rate lower, and our false positive rate higher.

Whoever approved inclusion of this “feature” needs to be soundly beaten with a clue stick.

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:27:56 +0000

I think it’s great – why not have them clickable — they’re URL’s after all :)

By: Christian Cederfjard

Christian Cederfjard — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:06:20 +0000

@ Jeff:

http://www.lipsum.com has a generator.

By: Jeff Lewis

Jeff Lewis — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:52:41 +0000

Kinda off topic, but how do you generate the “lorem ipsum” text? That has always confused me.

By: Magnus Kragelund

Magnus Kragelund — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:18:53 +0000

I think it’s great.
Sure, PR folks will include URL’s en the mail titles, but we don’t have to click them, just because we can ;)
Outlook (yeah, i know – use it at work) has this feature already, and I find my self and my colleagues using it quite often for links to our shared drives and that sort of thing.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:23:44 +0000

Right…but what does that have to do with active links in the subject line? :)

By: Jason Terhorst

Jason Terhorst — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:33:27 +0000

You can also easily add phone numbers and street addresses into your address book when they appear in your emails, by simply clicking on them.