Gmail blocks external HTML links

[sh_ithe_ad]

When I send a HTML link to my gmail account heres what happens. If the link is linked to anything with a .com or any other known domain name the email never arrives. For example if the email has <a href="www.google.com">link</a> in it, it won't make it to my inbox. If on the other hand I change that to <a href="www.google.sdf">link</a>, the email will get there so it seems fairly obvious that gmail filters out any links to external sites by searching for .com, .org, .cc or any other known domain name. Is there any way to bypass this? I tried replacing the .com with ASCII codes but it didn't work. I noticed the ASCII code for a capital C will come out as a lowercase c so its obvious google processes the inputted HTML then reprints it itself. I haven't tried obfuscating with javascript because I doubt gmail will process javascript in an email. Can anyone think of another sneaky to bypass this filter system?

[Cool_Fire]

well, you can just spell out the whole thing, like "www dot google dot com" But as far as making clickable links is concerned, I think Google has that pretty well covered.

[Thor]

Im not understanding, I just did a quick test myslef by sending http://www.hackerthreads.com to myself. I simply wrote out http://www.hackerthreads.com > highlighted it > then clicked the link button. It sent and works fine.

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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.hackerthreads.com">www.hackerthreads.com</a>

Sending this html even works, just a little messy. If they are filtering, it must be for something else.

[Cool_Fire]

I must admit I've not actually tried, I was reasoning from logic.