Allegedly, on or about 24 July 2017, fred roller sent:
I am behind Patrick on this one. Teaching users to stop blindly
clicking links is constantly in my dialog, especially while I am
cleaning their systems. Researching something to see IF it should be
clicked seems a big assumption and time is a precious commodity
guardedly doled out.
And some things are hard to research if they use ambiguous abbreviations
or re-use other random words as their name for the sake of being cute.
This is email, not twitter. Posters aren't limited to a tiny number of
characters, and should be encouraged to put a blurb with their links,
whether that be a short description, or just a snippet copied from where
the link points to.
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