What site is "n://@mail.mar@msglist.htm?FID=0x0000000B"?

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 08 Aug 2002 07:42 PDT

Dear Annie, 
How did you get/find this address? I am asking because it seems to me
like part of a spammers' site, whereas the string refers to the fact
you actually paid a visit there.

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Clarification of Question by annie2002-ga on 08 Aug 2002 08:44 PDT

Question should have been:  What website is the following:
"msn://mail.mar@msglist.htm?FID=0x0000000B"?

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Request for Question Clarification by blader-ga on 08 Aug 2002 17:14 PDT

It's an internal page within the MSN network. I used to use MSN, and
some websites came in the form of that protocol. You'll need to sign
up and install the MSN software for it to work, I think.

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Request for Question Clarification by waldo-ga on 27 Aug 2002 09:39 PDT

annie2002

I would agree with politicalguru-ga. I just recently received a spam
email with a similar 'address'. My guess is that it is the result of
an algorithm used to obfuscate the origin of the email and prevent
feedback.

What was the general content of the email?

Waldo

That doesn't look like any thing that would translate into a website
or emaila address.

the "@" parts wont work as an URL
and the"://" won't work as a mail address
the "msglist.htm" refers to a page by that name (somewhere)
and the "?FID=0x000000008" part would be a string of data being passed
to that page to process

this could possibly be a portion of the complete URL, but you need a
lot more!

It appears to be an internal page within MSN.

I would say that that was an email in some sort of propriatory webmail
client. The URL would not be valid on the internet but could well be
valid on someones local machine. It is not any sort of web page /
internet service that anyone could access.

I tend to get alot of these in my website access logs when someone has
got an email from someone else telling them about my website. They
click a link in the email and my access log goes and gets a line in it
with a weird URL in the referer field.

hope this helps :)