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Obscuring posted email addresses

15-Nov-07 21:15

Similar to 'Coding Horror' or 'Hall of Shame', can we have a forum to showcase the various Requirement Horrors where we discuss about the following: (Or does 'Coding Horror' encompass this within its purview?)

1) Badly provided requirements by the client.
2) The sales/technical representative that we depute from our team does not properly coordinate with the client after being in deep sh*t slumber. They then resort to assumptions and rework besides acutely disturbing the other teams as well.

Wouldn't these be more critical than 'Coding Horrors' since it lays the foundation of the software itself?

-- modified at 6:18 Friday 16th November, 2007

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Hans Dietrich15-Nov-07 10:08

Hans Dietrich

15-Nov-07 10:08

I just noticed that google groups has a new feature that will obscure email addresses (they call it email masking). The way it works is this: When someone includes an email address in a post, the email address is masked - part of it is replaced with 3 dots, like this: hdietr...@gmail.com. The underlined part is a hyperlink, that will take you to a page that looks like this. After you enter the captcha, you will see the unmasked post.

I suggest that you consider to implement this in all forums on CP.

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N a v a n e e t h15-Nov-07 19:11

N a v a n e e t h

15-Nov-07 19:11

Great suggestion. But I have seen some people writing the mail address like name[AT]provider.com, so it also needs to be masked, I guess.

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar15-Nov-07 21:39

15-Nov-07 21:39

N a v a n e e t h wrote:
. But I have seen some people writing the mail address like name[AT]provider.com, so it also needs to be masked, I guess

Do you really require that much of masking? The real need is to secure email addresses from automated spam robots which crawl the web and harvest email addresses based on the patterns like user@example.com.

Also, trying to mask name[AT]provider.com and similar user-driven masking might lead to a lot of complexities being built into the validation engine. Quite a few of similar permutations and combinations are:

1) Embedded Spaces like name (at) provider.com
2) Case-sensitivity. I admit that you can temporarily use a .ToLower() to pass through the validation engine.
3) Alternate Texts like name-nospam@provider.com, name (emailmeat) provider.com

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Chris Maunder18-Nov-07 16:07

Chris Maunder

18-Nov-07 16:07

Interesting. I'll look into adding that.

Thanks Hans.

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Paul Conrad24-Nov-07 19:13

Paul Conrad

24-Nov-07 19:13

I agree with Hans. You should look into that.

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar14-Nov-07 18:58

14-Nov-07 18:58

Any CP Admin around can help?

ASP.NET forums appears very much distorted. The alignment between the threads, left banners seems to be terribly disturbed.

Has someone put a bad HTML in a message or like that?

The links like 'Reply' are operational anyway.

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Mitch F.14-Nov-07 19:01

Mitch F.

14-Nov-07 19:01

I was wondering for a few minutes if the problem was with my browser, but I guess not.

N a v a n e e t h14-Nov-07 19:29

N a v a n e e t h

14-Nov-07 19:29

Yes it appears very badly. I tried in all the browsers available in my machine thinking it is a browser issue.

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Michael Sync14-Nov-07 20:05

14-Nov-07 20:05

Oh! god.. why this happen to ASP.NET forum, my fav one, while we are celebrating our CP's 8th year birthday???

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar14-Nov-07 20:34

14-Nov-07 20:34

It looks to be fine now. The distortion has moved to Page 2. My doubt is that some dumb fellow has put broken HTML in his query. Mad | :mad:

We would get to know only after a CP Administrator looks into the forum posts and confirms on this. Only they can correct and repair the broken HTML.

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Michael Sync14-Nov-07 20:41

14-Nov-07 20:41

ya. I think CP should have some restrictions for posting the HTML tags.. it's too dangerous....

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar14-Nov-07 20:50

14-Nov-07 20:50

A few people have identified, narrowed down and zeroed in; on the message that is creating the problem -- the epicenter of the quake. Check out this thread:

http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=2319692&forumid=12076#xx2319692xx[^] (entitled "Please delete "Sending Mail" Message"). But the original asker has still not amended his post. Only a CP Admin should intervene now.

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Michael Sync14-Nov-07 21:01

"Posting status:" problem

14-Nov-07 21:01

Thanks, man..

I think it might not be because of "The Knowledge" who post "Sending Mail" .. I agreed with N a v a n e e t h. maybe.. cuz of "Sherin"'s signature..

Michael Sync13-Nov-07 22:23

13-Nov-07 22:23

The count of my posted msgs is 1003 today. How come "posting status" keep on showing "Regular"? Is this because the database of user profile hasn't synchronized yet?

N a v a n e e t h13-Nov-07 22:31

N a v a n e e t h

13-Nov-07 22:31

It will be updated on weekend

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Michael Sync13-Nov-07 22:44

13-Nov-07 22:44

Thanks for information.. Navaneeth...

Michael Sync18-Nov-07 15:46

18-Nov-07 15:46

The weekend is over.. but still not updated.. do u think it's a bug in our forum??

but ya. i mean, I don't care that much about the posting status.. i just wanna know.. Big Grin | :-D

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Paul Conrad24-Nov-07 19:14

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24-Nov-07 19:14

I think it is at a certain time over the weekend.

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David Crow13-Nov-07 3:15

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13-Nov-07 3:15

The Visual C++/MFC forum is very unresponsive this morning. The others seem fine.

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Michael Sync12-Nov-07 22:28