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Why is the url http://inj9.mjt.lu/nl2/inj9/mjl1s.html?m=AUcAAEFQgSwAAcrrRL4...?

This looks like its been run through that utility that makes links look sketchy

I'm an MIT student and received the letter as an email. This was the URL linked in the email for the 'online version'.

I had the URL updated to the Office of the President's page linked by a poster below as it is certainly clearer / more immediately credible. Thanks for raising the issue and thanks to that poster for the link.

Interesting, it must be a analytics service they use to track clicks, it certainly makes the links look sketchy

.lu is Luxembourg. Why would the president of MIT's statement be on a server in Luxembourg? And "mjt"? Yeah, I'm not clicking on that to see what's there. No way.

Here's a real link: https://president.mit.edu/speeches-writing/reflections-and-p...

Here is the first link in your linked page (“I encourage you to read his letter”):

http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AVwAAAxBzpsAAcrrRL4AAAA8ttQAAAAAGqoAJ...

Which resolves to this: https://orgchart.mit.edu/node/6/letters_to_community/importa...

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