Text 12566, 51 rader
Skriven 2010-11-23 17:13:56 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 12527 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.0)
Ärende: N'other one evicted from dyndns?
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Replying to a message of Peter Knapper to Bob Ackley:

 PK> Hi Bob,

 BA>> I need to decrement the confusion factor here.  (1) I 
 BA>> do read email using IE,
 BA>> the computer will not allow me to click on links 
 BA>> included within an email, any
 BA>> email, any link.  (2) If I cut the link out of the 
 BA>> email and paste it into IE it will
 BA>> not work.  

 PK> Lets see if this stand up... 

 PK> The machine in question is behind an EXTERNAL Firewall, that KNOWS
 PK> about Email URL's. Once the Email has arrived at that machine, an
 PK> EXTERNAL Firewall has already recorded the URL and provides instant
 PK> Blocking of that particular URL from ANY application on that machine.
 PK> Please note that this is just ONE possible scenario...

IMO the blocking is handled internally within each computer, it's simply a
matter
of preventing clicks on email links from working, and the software (XP and W7)
is smart enough not to allow pasting of links from emails into the browser
search
line.

The machines are provided to the library by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
-
or so it says at startup.

 BA>> The only emails I've
 BA>> wanted to click on links in are sort of newsletters I 
 BA>> want to unsubscribe from;
 BA>> since I've been unable to do that I just have to delete 
 BA>> them unopened like I do junk
 BA>> mail at the post office (the local post office keeps a 
 BA>> large trash can conveniently
 BA>> in the lobby for that purpose).  A minor annoyance.

 PK> The only option that I can see is to use another machine that is not
 PK> "protected" from this type of activity... ASSUMING my above theory is
 PK> correct, there is no way to modify the behaviour of this machine to
 PK> allow what you want, as the control point is external to the machine.

All of the machines in the library are "so protected" - as are the ones in 
the public library over in Red Oak, IA.  It's only a minor irritant as it only
takes a couple of minutes to delete all the junk emails I don't want to see.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
 * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)