No, I take that back: we _do_ have a mechanism for suppressing reads

[u/mdw/putty] / windows / website.url

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0