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this kind of test and it is bad enough to be shown a red flashing page
saying 'FAILED' or the like. Pointed content of the kind the WaPo used is guaranteed to get a very negative response -- and from people you are
actually trying to help!

Third, what we all need (and not just journalists) is to have our email pre-filtered in a sandbox environment. Load the email, test the links and
see what comes back. Dodgy javascript and dodgy websites can be flagged.

An automated test of that sort is never going to be 100% accurate; the end
user would still need to take some care. But adding checks would help
greatly. End users are not solely responsible for damage due to following
bad links in emails!

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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 02:00:51 +0100
From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Subject: Re: D.C.'s New Area Code Will Be... 771 (Levine, RISKS-32.28)

And how many of those numbers are "allocated but unused"?

Many years ago, they upgraded the numbers in the town where I worked from 5 digits to 6. In the process, they allocated our company the number 36nnnn
for DDI (Direct Dial-In). In other words, each phone in the office had a
normal phone number - the local exchange routed all numbers starting with 36
to the company PABX for it to process the rest.

That's 10,000 numbers allocated to just one customer ...

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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:01:55 -0400
From: "Steve and Micki Bacher" <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Pandemic spurs journalists to go it alone via email (Axios)

This item fails to observe that in the case of Sullivan (and likely Taibbi
as well), what's pushing them out is not the pandemic but the amount of interference (aka censorship) being imposed by the publishing organizations they work for, since these writers often espouse views not in keeping with
the mainstream. So it's more cancel culture than COVID-19 cultures.

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2020 11:11:11 -0800
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