[clug] Snowdrift.coop

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 13:57 +1100, Tony Lewis wrote:
> On 3/12/2014 1:38 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > On 3 December 2014 at 11:04, Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> >> Unless the post is about a widely understood subject there should be *some*
> >> hint regarding what the link is about.
> >
> >> I am uneasy clicking on email links that I have no idea about.
> > I'm sorry to hear that.
> > [curious] Is that just email links or links in general - if not the latter, why?
> >
> > I don't understand your problem (I can be a bit thick) - could you
> > expand on that please?
> 
> Pardon me jumping in, but...
> 
> Security, for one.  Convenience for another.
> 
> Security: The other end of that link could have malware, NSFW material 
> or Rick Astley.  It might come from you, or it might be someone 
> impersonating you.  It's considerate behaviour to give your recipients a 
> clue to what they're getting in for, and if nothing else, putting some 
> context lends credence that the link is genuinely from you and not from 
> someone impersonating you.
> 
> Convenience: it might be a 400MB streamed video which will start 
> automatically and I might be using my mobile data plan.  Help me decide 
> whether it's something worth looking at now, later or at all.
> 
> > Have you considered Googling the link or would the same reasons for
> > your uneasiness still apply?
> 
> I do do this if there is no explanation, but it would be nice for us to 
> not have to do that (x 100s of recipients) vs the originator explaining 
> once.

+1

cheers