December 22, 2017 at 5:37 am
Lynn Pettis - Thursday, December 21, 2017 3:44 PMI'm sorry, no I'm not sorry. Amazing what can be learned when others start reply to different threads.
You know, it's really not fair to just drop things like this without a link...
Makes those of us who are curious have to go hunting...
😀😉
December 22, 2017 at 9:26 am
Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year.
😎
December 22, 2017 at 10:42 am
Eirikur Eiriksson - Friday, December 22, 2017 9:26 AMMerry Christmas everyone and a happy new year.
😎
Same to you, Eirikur.
December 23, 2017 at 8:47 am
Ed Wagner - Friday, December 22, 2017 10:42 AMEirikur Eiriksson - Friday, December 22, 2017 9:26 AMMerry Christmas everyone and a happy new year.
😎Same to you, Eirikur.
Thanks Ed!
😎
December 23, 2017 at 11:58 am
Merry Christmas to one and all.
December 25, 2017 at 8:12 am
Happy Holidays!
December 26, 2017 at 5:23 am
Sean Lange - Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:50 AMEd Wagner - Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:23 AMBrandie Tarvin - Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:14 AMI get why they did it, removing all hyperlinks from the emails so people don't accidentally click on bad links, but it is very annoying that I have to now cut and paste all the links from my SSC notifications into a browser because there's no way to make an exception for sites like this...
SIGH. At some point corporate's going to get so paranoid about security that we soon won't even be able to read emails because they'll be encrypted to heck and back without us having access to the public key.
Yeah, that would be annoying. I know that some people can't seem to stop themselves from clicking every link they receive, but there's got to be a point where people have to be responsible adults and engage their brain.
My wife's company inserts red text at the top of external emails pointing out that the email is from an external source. Between that, the standard signature block and then the standard legal disclaimer, a one-line email runs about 50K.
My wife's company has recently started adding [EXTERNAL] to the beginning of the subject for any emails outside their company. I can see how that might seem like a good idea at first but now how do you sort your email when all the subjects start with the same inserted topic? She spends most of her day working with clients so 90% of her communication is from outside people. It drives her nuts.
Oh, [EXTERNAL] was added at the exact same time. So yeah, it's getting downright impossible to sort through my mail these days.
December 26, 2017 at 5:30 am
Thom A - Thursday, December 21, 2017 8:49 AMBrandie Tarvin - Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:14 AMI get why they did it, removing all hyperlinks from the emails so people don't accidentally click on bad links, but it is very annoying that I have to now cut and paste all the links from my SSC notifications into a browser because there's no way to make an exception for sites like this...
SIGH. At some point corporate's going to get so paranoid about security that we soon won't even be able to read emails because they'll be encrypted to heck and back without us having access to the public key.
At least at my workplace it replaces the URL. So, for example, the link to Sean's post above for the notification came out as https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/%5Binsert unique link code here]-?domain=sqlservercentral.com. It's just a redirect URL, but Mimecast's website is not the quickest, so when I click a link it takes a good 20 seconds to load SSC (or any other site). We can whitelist links, such as we have for Sage (for payroll), but not a domain.
If the link is bad, then when you click the link it'll take you to a warning page and emails our network team, who review the link. Of course, a lot of users seem to think that a warning page means that if they click the link again 5 seconds later it'll work.
Yeah, but now we're using URLDefenseProofPoint to "rewrite" the URL, the link is no longer a hyperlink (so I have to cut-n-paste an enormous link, example below) AND they've added that annoying [EXTERNAL] to every subject. How the heck am I supposed to work like this?
Example of link I have to cut-n-paste now:
December 26, 2017 at 6:01 am
Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, December 26, 2017 5:23 AMSean Lange - Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:50 AMEd Wagner - Thursday, December 21, 2017 7:23 AMBrandie Tarvin - Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:14 AMI get why they did it, removing all hyperlinks from the emails so people don't accidentally click on bad links, but it is very annoying that I have to now cut and paste all the links from my SSC notifications into a browser because there's no way to make an exception for sites like this...
SIGH. At some point corporate's going to get so paranoid about security that we soon won't even be able to read emails because they'll be encrypted to heck and back without us having access to the public key.
Yeah, that would be annoying. I know that some people can't seem to stop themselves from clicking every link they receive, but there's got to be a point where people have to be responsible adults and engage their brain.
My wife's company inserts red text at the top of external emails pointing out that the email is from an external source. Between that, the standard signature block and then the standard legal disclaimer, a one-line email runs about 50K.
My wife's company has recently started adding [EXTERNAL] to the beginning of the subject for any emails outside their company. I can see how that might seem like a good idea at first but now how do you sort your email when all the subjects start with the same inserted topic? She spends most of her day working with clients so 90% of her communication is from outside people. It drives her nuts.
Oh, [EXTERNAL] was added at the exact same time. So yeah, it's getting downright impossible to sort through my mail these days.
For me, the volume of email is now to the point where I spend so much time reading email that I have less time to do any actual work. It would be sort-of okay if it accomplished something, but it's more about CYA garbage than anything else.
I wonder...if something happened by didn't generate at least one email, did it really happen? 😉
December 26, 2017 at 7:15 am
Merry Belated Christmas to all and finally back at work.
December 26, 2017 at 7:46 am
Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, December 26, 2017 5:30 AMYeah, but now we're using URLDefenseProofPoint to "rewrite" the URL, the link is no longer a hyperlink (so I have to cut-n-paste an enormous link, example below) AND they've added that annoying [EXTERNAL] to every subject. How the heck am I supposed to work like this?
Example of link I have to cut-n-paste now:
Iddon'trreally see why it
I don't really see why is has to stop the link being a hyperlink. If you're copy and pasting it anyway then you're just an vunerable if the link above is purely a redirect. The redirecting site needs to have some type of logic on it before the redirect.
Also, including the full link seems foolish, as you could simply copy that part of the link out, avoiding all of the added "security".
I imagine images with links are effectively useless now? (Cringe)
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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December 26, 2017 at 12:12 pm
If you look at the link, Thom, there's a few extra "goodies" in the middle of the link, as in right after the https. Which means I'd have to correct every link right after pasting it but before hitting GO. So there's really no sense in doing just a partial cut. Also, it's hard to tell at the end of the actual link which is proofpoint garbage and which is the real link.
But yeah, I agree that if someone really wants to go to a bad website, cut-n-paste is not going to stop them.
December 26, 2017 at 12:14 pm
Oh, yes. And belated Happy Holidays to everyone, no matter what holiday you celebrate.
And if you don't celebrate, I hope you at least got a decent day or two off to do whatever fun stuff you've been wanting to do.
December 27, 2017 at 2:41 pm
Anyone else notice that read threads are being marked unread even though there are no new posts? I'm pretty sure that I've read everything in a thread if I'm marked as the last person to post in that thread.
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