Gerard Meijssen schreef:
Hoi, I got an e-mail from Pay Pal informing me that they now have a feature that allows for the embedding of a link in an e-mail that goes directly to the Pay Pal payment process. For an organisation like the WMF that relies heavily on the donations from the public, this may be a feature that will be considered.
That sounds like a HTML-link. So you need to send out html emails... I know that in the real world everybody is using html emails but I for one do not like that.
And I do not like Paypal either. The are leeches sucking up a lot of money that should go to the WMF.
NB With these kinds of features it is fairly obvious that some scrutiny is needed for the security of such a feature. I have not looked into this but expect that this is one of those things where a balance is struck between convenience and security.
Thanks, GerardM
Yes,indeed. The cost of bad publicity when things go wrong could be higher. I see people getting spamed with fake WMF emails with fake "donate to the WMF" hyperlinks from Negira.