CDR: Re: Fwd: First Site

[Joe Baptista]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, David Marshall wrote:

> ellie900 at usa.com writes:
> 
> > THE NEW LINK FOR OUR SITE.
> > SORRY FOR ANY TROUBLE YOU MAY HAVE HAD WITH THE OLD LINK.
> > THIS ONE HAS ALL THE CORRECTIONS
> > 
> > http://3638141293/36/1059436/legal.html
> 
> One boggles when some idiot who spams refers to a URL as a "line," and
> then can't even give a valid URL. What did they do, convert the IP to
> a single value and then translate it to decimal? Why? It's obviously
> to dodge complaints. I have to wonder about anybody who
> would write a browser which accepts something like that in the first
> place. 

The browser has to accept it.  The number is valid.  you would have to
reprogram the stack to block resolution - or alternatively block it at the
browser - and I'm not even sure that is possible at this point. The
decimal format is part of the way the internet works.

Regards
joe

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