Re: Link considered unsafe

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:16:50 +0100 Paul Mead <paul.d.mead@gmail.com> wrote: 

PM> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>> ,----[ (info "(emacs-mime)Display Customization") ]
>> | `mm-w3m-safe-url-regexp'
>> |      A regular expression that matches safe URL names, i.e. URLs that
>> |      are unlikely to leak personal information when rendering HTML
>> |      email (the default value is `\\`cid:').  If `nil' consider all
>> |      URLs safe.
>> `----

>> Keep in mind that it is unsafe!
>> 
PM> ...sure, but I can make that decision before clicking a link though,
PM> can't I?

Actually I was wondering why it is unsafe to visit links in w3m.  If
anything, w3m is the safest web browser I use daily, much better than
IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari because it doesn't even attempt to
run JavaScript.  What personal information is this talking about?  Is it
"trackback" links that notify the document author that you've looked at
their document?  If so, the word "unsafe" is probably too strong, I'd
call them "dubious" and stop there.  

In any case, this is basic functionality that users should not have to
enable.  In addition it's not easy to configure this.  What am I, the
user, supposed to put in it?  I think it's unfair to expect the user to
configure such minutae.

Ted