Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Inexcusable laziness

Below is the text of a warning email I received from an internal intrusion detection system:
Subject: IMPORTANT: security violations found for cluster

Security violations found for instances of cluster: foobar

To see the full report go to:
http://ids.mycompany.com/reports/cluster/<clustername>
There are many things I think could be improved with this email, but the primary thing that annoyed me was the link to the full report. Why not insert the actual cluster name so I can just click on the link? The way it is I have to copy the prefix of the url and then type or copy in the cluster it is complaining about. Are functional links too much to ask for?

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