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The reason that this will lead to malicious behavior is simple - the download button could be marked as something else. as could the program. and the friend.

Instead of clogging someone's in-box with what might be a large attachment, why not send the web address of the page where they can download the software?

The key of this idea was to send an application configured in the exact manner as the senders. So you could develope a very flexible application - and people would spread the most usefull configurations.

Perhaps this could be fixed by sending only the configuration file?

I think the idea here is right on. Make it easy to share an application you like with a friend. Perhaps an email attachment is not the way to go, but a link to a "share server" or something is a good idea.

AFAIK, the benefit is in sharing specific configurations. A repository of configurations would definitely be the best way of dealing with this. If you wanted to send a configuration, you could just send a link to its page.

- have metadata fields for description, target audience (expert/novice), benefits, etc- include options to rate configurations and post comments- a "send to a friend" button could just send a link to this page, with some kind of message- there would be a link to download the program with some setting to use the given configuration

also, you'd want to spec up the mechanism for pre-loading configurations into applications, and get it recognised as a standard. that way, developers might actually take notice.