Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing

[Sven Olaf Kamphuis <sven () cb3rob net>]

> That's why I recommend that banks et.al. don't put *any* URLs in their
> messages.  If they make this an explicit policy and pound it into the
> heads of their customers that ANY message containing a URL is not from
> them, and that they should always use their bookmarks to get to the
> bank's site, then they're training their customers to be phish-resistant.

they do, and the next thing you know, someone in marketing sends out an 
email with an url -anyway-.

considering the fact that banks don't seem to like to be contacted by 
emails nor get replies (noreply@...) i'd strongly suggest them not to use 
crappy obsolete SMTP at all but rather present the users with their 
messages they don't want to distribute by paper mail -after- logging into 
their online banking system, where they can use all the html, links, flash 
*kuch* etc they want.

> ---rsk