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.
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
On 11/03/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Standard footer for OTRS and/or mailing list messages?
- d.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:24 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Standard footer for OTRS and/or mailing list messages?
Great idea. "Dear Billy, I'm sorry you think we're a left-wing conspiracy to whitewash history on the ethnic genocide. Please donate money." ;)
Great idea. "Dear Billy, I'm sorry you think we're a left-wing conspiracy to whitewash history on the ethnic genocide. Please donate money." ;)
However, "Dear Billy, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. I've now fixed the article in question. Please donate money." might work.
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Great idea. "Dear Billy, I'm sorry you think we're a left-wing conspiracy to whitewash history on the ethnic genocide. Please donate money." ;)
However, "Dear Billy, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention. I've now fixed the article in question. Please donate money." might work.
Hmmm. One might say, "Your continued donations will insure perpetual maintenance of your cemetery plot." :-) Since mileage may vary such donations should be proportional to the level of controversy associated with the article.
Ec
On 3/11/08, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Hmmm. One might say, "Your continued donations will insure perpetual maintenance of your cemetery plot." :-)
With your continued donations we can at least hire a dentist to identify your remains.
—C.W.
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.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
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.
Most email apps will display a link in plaintext as clickable, the otrs system sends out plaintext emails with links a lot anyway.
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