[TriLUG] destructive spam?

Wed Jun 2 16:56:24 EDT 2004

Found this at http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/rfc2111.txt

   The use of [MIME] within email to convey Web pages and their
   associated images requires a URL scheme to permit the HTML to refer
   to the images or other data included in the message.  The Content-ID
   Uniform Resource Locator, "cid:", serves that purpose.

   Similarly Net News readers use Message-IDs to link related messages
   together.  The Message-ID URL provides a scheme, "mid:", to refer to
   such messages as a "resource".

   The "mid" (Message-ID) and "cid" (Content-ID) URL schemes provide
   identifiers for messages and their body parts.  The "mid" scheme uses
   (a part of) the message-id of an email message to refer to a specific
   message.  The "cid" scheme refers to a specific body part of a
   message; its use is generally limited to references to other body
   parts in the same message as the referring body part.  The "mid"
   scheme may also refer to a specific body part within a designated
   message, by including the content-ID's address.

   A note on terminology.  The terms "body part" and "MIME entity" are
   used interchangeably.  They refer to the headers and body of a MIME
   message, either the message itself or one of the body parts contained
   in a Multipart message.

See the aforementioned url for the rest of the details.
glenn

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, stan briggs wrote:

> 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
>
>
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