[TriLUG] destructive spam?

Wed Jun 2 16:49:42 EDT 2004

all,

here is the html for an email that i just received. it is an
(unsuccessful) attempt to get the recipient to click on an apparent
link. what kind of daemon is this href=cid thing?

<snippet of html>

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2920.0" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>If the message will not displayed
automatically,<br>
follow the link to read the delivered message.<br><br>
Received message is available at:<br>
<a href=cid:031401Mfdab4$3f3dL780$73387018 at 57W81fa70Re height=0
width=0>www.earthemail.com/inbox/stan/read.php?sessionid-3753</a>
<iframe
src=cid:031401Mfdab4$3f3dL780$73387018 at 57W81fa70Re height=0
width=0></iframe> 
<DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>

<snippet of html>

if this is an attempt to do harm then why is this not illegal? if this
is someone's method for just getting off then i must ask "why?".

thanks to anyone that can provide insight.

stan