w3.html spam link

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Emilie

I'm concerned of a potential security risk that showed up in my emails that
were sent out by me after visiting the W3.org website. When I would send an
email from Outlook, the recipient would notice the URL
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 in the header of my message and now the
header has spread to my recipients emails. I have noticed others are now
showing the link in their emails. I recall visiting the site a few weeks
ago, and that same day someone noticed the above link in my email. I believe
it is just effecting my outlook. Please any help will be appreciated!
 
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VanguardLH

Emilie said:
I'm concerned of a potential security risk that showed up in my emails that
were sent out by me after visiting the W3.org website. When I would send an
email from Outlook, the recipient would notice the URL
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40 in the header of my message and now the
header has spread to my recipients emails. I have noticed others are now
showing the link in their emails. I recall visiting the site a few weeks
ago, and that same day someone noticed the above link in my email. I believe
it is just effecting my outlook. Please any help will be appreciated!
Click to expand...

That's part of HTML coding. It defines by what HTML standard your HTML
formatted e-mail is to be rendered. If you copy and paste that URL into
the address bar of your web browser, you will see that it points at the
document that defines the HTML 4.01 specification.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#adef-http-equiv

Also read http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/link.html. The URL
might also be listed within the <HTML> tag, as in:

<HTML .... xmlns={URL} ...>

so read:

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_html.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_html_xmlns.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535160(VS.85).aspx

So in WHICH thread do you want to continue this same question that you
duplicated in another post submitted all of 2 hours later?
 
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Pat Willener

Why "spam"? Every valid HTML document (including HTML mail messages)
should contain a <!DOCTYPE> tag indicating the HTML level used. If you
don't like it, use plain text format.
 
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Emilie

Thanks so much! I was afraid I scared people away from checking my post
because of my suspicious subject line (I was spamming the forum), so I
reposted with a "safer title". :)
 
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Emilie

Thank you, I had never noticed it before and I was concerned when it suddenly
started showing up. I researched w3's site and they mentioned people using
w3 html as spam. Check point number 12 on the following link:

http://www.w3.org/Help/Webmaster

Thanks again!
 

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