I appreciate the info but I'm not sure it explains anything.  My suspicion is that it might be a link to some embedded malware or something nasty.  The fact that hovering the mouse over the link shows the resolution to be "about:blank" and that there was an image attached to the email make me wonder if it might point to something embedded in the image that purports to be the "about:blank" page but also contains some kind of malware. 

I did not want to click on it even though I was on linux.  I did want to try to figure it out in case I should let my friend know about it (he runs windows).  I have no idea how to figure that out.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM, James Finstrom <jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
   The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) schemes, "cid:" and "mid:" allow
   references to messages and the body parts of messages.  For example,
   within a single multipart message, one HTML body part might include
   embedded references to other parts of the same message.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2111.txt

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
Got an email from a friend.  It includes a link that looks strange and seems to have no place in the context of the email.  Hovering the cursor over it seems to show that it resolves to "about:blank".  Here is is with some spaces inserted to make it not be active:

cid : 82 E5A786026D48CFB93EDE028A88F0EB @ SportdocPC

Anyone know?

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