[92672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Lameness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Oct 2 20:52:44 2006
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:51:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <93CE942E-C9F3-4E6F-A9CE-EFA51A82ADE8@blighty.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Steve Atkins wrote:
> That seems pretty unlikely (as it would break every email mentioning a
> virtual hosted website), and the URL you link to says nothing of
> the sort (it says "Don't use dotted-quads in URLs unless you want to
> look like Atriks, doofus.").
> Do you have some data suggesting that this is actually happening?
It is indeed happening, and appears to have started last night. And it's
not happening with very great accuracy. A valid mailto URL in a signature
file triggered it, for instance.
-Bill
