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1) The date controls on the search page should show 2000 through the current year in the year dropdown. Instead, it shows 2006 through 1010, and you have to select 2006 and then drop it down again to select an earlier year.
2) In the member profile page, when you click the posted messages link, it only returns the 200 most recent posts, with no option choose a different criteria for searching. I have an idea - provide a way to select a date, and a field for specifying a number of days (1-30), and then return all posts for the specified number of days before and after the specified date.
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Good ideas. The date picker kinda bites and we know it needs replacing.
Anyone got a good one they can throw at us?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Anyone got a good one they can throw at us?
I'm rather fond of this one[^] (now part of jQuery UI). Keyboard support and everything! 
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Should CP adopt a CAPTCHA?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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No, that would hamper postings. I was thinking more along the lines of being able to give a reason when reporting spam and if it is spam, have CP delete the user and not allow the user's domain links (like the signature for example) if they try and create another id. More filtering/edits than anything.
This one's pretty obvious because it's happened before and it seems he's just dying to get clicks.
What really irks me is that people that post articles are being bothered by replying "thanks" to someone that can care less about the article and just wants to get his links out there and search engine indexed. 
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Have you seen Google Accounts login? The second, third and subsequent bad login attempts are forced by CAPTCHA.
In the similar way, there should be some automated inspection of the content. If there is something suspicious, then the CAPTCHA should be thrown to the user.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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CP Team,
Can you check out this article?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/java/manish.aspx[^]
1) Contains just the article template. I think the author has just pressed the SUBMIT button perhaps.
2) Unnecessary swollen 1.69 MB Zip File. I haven't downloaded it since it looks like a potential virus threat because of article abuse.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Why didn't you just click on Report This Article???????
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I was bit concerned of the nature of the article since the prankster was trying to use CodeProject Article engine as a vector to spread the infection. Did you see the mysterious 1.79 Mega Bytes file?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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3 editors are scanning the article report list constantly, and there's only one of me scanning this page. Using the systems we have in place helps us ensure things are working smoothly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: 3 editors are scanning the article report list constantly, and there's only one of me scanning this page. Using the systems we have in place helps us ensure things are working smoothly.
Chris,
There's a theory going around in pub circles that VDK has been brain washed into believing that the Suggestions Forum is his personal blog. 
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Chris Maunder wrote: there's only one of me scanning this page
Chris. It is rumoured that you sleep for 1 minute every 40 years, and that you take your sustenance from the air. Surely that's enough; especially when you have VDK reporting in from the trenches every 3 minutes.
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>> Moved from General Discussions <<
This website is great. But has anyone noticed that when you forgot your password and have "it" sent by email, code project will send you your password? I think this should be changed to sending a newly generated, random password by email, because a lot of people will use their code project password for other and possibly important purposes, where it's security shouldn't be compromised.
Thanks,
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niik wrote: this should be changed to sending a newly generated, random password by email, because a lot of people will use their code project password for other and possibly important purposes
Still better; how about providing a link which can 'RESET' the password instead of sending out any password by plain text.
I have also seen a couple of websites where the hyperlink itself works only for six hours. But this again suffers other problems like when the SMTP server is on a very slow network, then a manual moderator/admin assistance might be required.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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I (and most people I talk to) prefer to have your actual password sent so you can be reminded and reuse it instead of having to go in and reset your password.
I'll run a quick poll and see what the consensus is
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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When the poll hits the frontpage could you post a heads up here? I have the forum bookmarked directly and rarely see the main page.
EDIT: never mind I saw the thread in the lounge.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
modified on Monday, March 24, 2008 11:01 AM
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Could you possibly provide an option? Not that I hate the system but for the sake of over bearing security I wouldn't mind it.
Brad
Australian
The PHP MVP
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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All of a sudden in all the article pages which I visit I am presented with the following message:
You are signed up for one or more newsletters but your email address has not been reconfirmed in a long time. Please click here to have an email sent that will allow us to confirm your email address and continue sending you newsletters containing the latest articles posted.
This had been the same email address used across for messageboards and articles with filters and rules set appropriately. So, I really don't know what is the need for a redundant superflous confirmation?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Vasudevan, as a web developer I would have thought you would be the first to understand that an email address is a fleeting thing and the importance of sending emails only to those addresses that are valid, active and interested.
You know those complaints we occasionally see about members not receiving forum notifications? Much of this is due to an ISP (or organisation) deciding we're spammers. If it's noticed by one or more domains that we're sending them emails for accounts that aren't active (and haven't been for a while) then the put us on their spam lists and, if we're lucky, they put us on everyone elses spam lists too.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: an email address is a fleeting thing and the importance of sending emails only to those addresses that are valid, active and interested
Chris. I understand your point. But my actual concern was that there are two more conditions which can be checked to prevent a superflous network usage:
1)Email addresses same across forum and article
2)One or more email address which is currently recieving emails without any problem.
Actually, I posted the concern, after seeing the 'Email Bounce History' page of YahooGroups. In YahooGroups, you can actually have multiple email addresses (quite similar to CP which has two currently right -- one for article and one for forums). Now, they track the history of every address like
'Hard Bounce'
'Soft Bounce'.
And for every bounce message, they have something like 'Bounce Message' and 'Bounce DateTime' to expedite any troubleshooting.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Is it possible to start a new forum section for Microsoft Exchange server 2007.
just my idea !!!
Best Regards
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Abhijit Jana
Microsoft Certified Professional
"Success is Journey it's not a destination"
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Wouldn't Operating Systems/SysAdmin befit this?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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This may have already been brought up here, but a cursory look at the last few pages of post didn't turn up this question, so...
I've noticed a trend for new members to use a kind of default name, that is something like "Member 4234432." I'm guessing that perhaps a field is filled in when they join with this default name and many choose not to change it?
Whatever the reason, I'd suggest implementing a way to discourage this practise. Make new members actually come up with some kind of original name.
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