Phishing fraud question

[Julian Field]

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At 16:28 14/10/2004, you wrote:
>--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:31 AM +0100 Julian Field
><mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>
>>I have tagged the subject line so far, and I think it is already starting
>>to cause problems. I am tending towards removing the subject tag.
>>
>>Any thoughts please?
>
>Obviously I would want it configurable, but I would vote for no subject
>line modifications, and no change to the body of the message except to
>remove the link.

I don't want to remove the link as it may well be a false positive. Users
will be really annoyed if their newsletters break just because I didn't
like the look of a link that was actually safe. This occurs in emails from
Egg (UK internet bank) for example.
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