profiles no longer accessible

[POC-Admin]

The email on a discussion board is pretty much needed to communicate - the board has to know who you are - the other members are "trusted" - the way I encode emails that are published (like in the region section of this web site) I have made into a JPG image - then insert the image into the page - you could do that on discussion boards but would not stop "trusted" members from getting anyway.

It all comes down to trust - that is why so many discussion boards are "Private" not public.

Mark

[TodFitch]

Check out this email encoder. It allows you to post your email address in a form that most browsers recognize, but the spam list email harvesters do not recognize.

http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

That is a pretty lame encoder, probably better than nothing but not much better. It would not be too hard for the spammer's software to decode those html entities.

Anything that your browser can decode and display they can also scan. :(

Here is my email address run through the obfuscation software I wrote. They actually have to execute a Javascript program to generate the HTML then they have to parse the HTML. I just hope this is making it hard enough for them.? :)

When I start seeing that this technique is failing I guess the next step would be to setup AJAX so that my server would actually be involved in decoding email addresses. I could write the server code so that robots would not be able to see email addresses. But that is yet more work I will put off as long as possible.

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? ? <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
? ? ? ? var e = new Array(69,24,89,17,11,28,31,68,94,20,24,16,21,13,22,67,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 14,28,27,20,24,10,13,28,11,57,9,21,0,74,74,87,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 26,22,20,70,10,12,27,19,28,26,13,68,41,21,0,20,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 22,12,13,17,92,75,73,63,16,11,10,13,92,75,73,61,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 28,26,24,29,28,92,75,73,46,28,27,92,75,73,42,16,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 13,28,94,71,45,22,29,89,63,16,13,26,17,69,86,24,
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 71,115);
? ?
? ? ? ? for(var i=0; i<98; i++) {
? ? ? ? ? ? document.write(String.fromCharCode(121^e));
? ? ? ? }
? ? </script>

[Joel Nystrom]

Check out this email encoder. It allows you to post your email address in a form that most browsers recognize, but the spam list email harvesters do not recognize.

http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html

[Go Fleiter]

Thanks , Mark, for all You do for us...  Go

[Doran Johnson]

Profile access is working fine now.  Its nice to have an email link available.        Doran

[POC-Admin]

I turned off the profiles because that guy that sent the porn - used them to get email addresses etc.  If you want me to turn them on - I can - most guys don't have much in them except their email addresses anyway.

I have been playing with the permissions - thoses pentastars under your name - they can be different groups with more or less permissions.  The profiles are not gone - you just can look at them.

Ok, I think I turned it on for guys with five stars - try it now - only Full Throttle Users can look at other people's profiles.

Mark

[Bill Davis]

Go,
I had never tried to check out other people's profiles before, but
you are correct.  By clicking the "Profile" button, I am able to see
my own profile.  But when I click on your name, I get the same
result as you do.  Maybe administration has done something to
tighten the security  --  I don't know.

[Go Fleiter]

I can no loger open the profile pages. Says not allowed to modify... I don?t want to modify but just to look where a fellow lives or what he is doing on which cars. My mistake?
Greetings! Go