Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Mon, 4 Mar 2024 10:47:13 -0600

On 03/04, Ralph Lange via Tech-talk wrote:
> The "official" Git mirror of the SNL Compiler and Sequencer has found a
> more permanent home under the EPICS-Modules umbrella at
> 
>     https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/epics-modules/sequencer/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eTS7QVczjxYX8MIiDzYjiJmCxvEeeKu-ZkRiA_dicIRCesT4HJqIPI8KYbHtBm5M0iO27nWOX21u49vSbtd6m0S_tIY$ 
> 
> with the documentation being available at the canonical place on Pages:
> 
>     https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics-modules.github.io/sequencer/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eTS7QVczjxYX8MIiDzYjiJmCxvEeeKu-ZkRiA_dicIRCesT4HJqIPI8KYbHtBm5M0iO27nWOX21u49vSbtd6JaR88-s$ 

Hi, Ralph!

Are you aware that the URLs you sent are wrapped in a urldefense.us
URL?  When I open a URL, I'd like to go directly to the real URL, not an
intermediary.  In the text/plain part of your email, you can see above
that what would have been a reasonably short and easy-to-read URL has
been changed into a monstrosity.  And for the text/html part, I wouldn't
normally just blindly follow the link (unless on mobile), but it makes
it more of a pain because then I'd have to either copy the text of the
link, or find the actual URL embedded in the urldefense.us URL mess.

Actually, I'd be kind of surprised if you sent URLs wrapped in a
urldefense.us URL since I don't think you're based in the US, right?
So, maybe you didn't do this, but the Tech-Talk mailing list server, or
some server along the way, is doing this automatically?  If so, that's
really annoying, and I certainly would find it frustrating that anything
would be modifying an email that I sent because that would be making
a change without my consent.  (Yes, I'm aware of S/MIME and PGP, but
they're not very widely used.)  If this is the case, maybe Andrew or
someone else at the APS can do something to fix this?

As a test, here's the real URL of the first URL you sent, I'm not
connecting to an ANL SMTP server for submission, and I'm not wrapping it
in a urldefense.us URL, so if it ends up wrapped in one, it wasn't me
who did it:

  https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/epics-modules/sequencer/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!eE6BmmT8Ri8GapTAzmyfD12LAk9sccR-YQUzobfcJw7GqTEU-BbYLrkuFdpGX4CMuiS_La2TXb2VNWd3dhh53Q$ 

Thanks!

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System