jollygreengiant
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| posted on 5/1/05 at 05:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark Allanson
I think a post code and nearest postal town would be a start, not necessarily published, but a start point for ChrisW to filter the purveyors of
viruses, porn, second identities etc
Why not post code and house name/number?.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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ned
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| posted on 5/1/05 at 05:17 PM |
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cos there are too many wierdo's out there..
present company included 
[Edited on 5/1/05 by ned]
beware, I've got yellow skin
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flak monkey
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| posted on 5/1/05 at 05:50 PM |
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Well my screen name comes from a gaming alias i gained at a lan party on day in an Unreal Tournament frenzy... and i use it on virtually every site i
am a member on. Anyway my 'essential' details are in my profile.
Anyway, the details thing is good as long as there is a proper data protection thingy as well. Which may be difficult to set up? I dont know. I do
agree that there should be more details required for the site, or at least a valid email adress. Maybe sending a link to a secure access page to the
submitted email adress or something? (some sites do this) I dont know how that works though.
Cheers,
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 5/1/05 at 07:29 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by ned
cos there are too many wierdo's out there..
present company included
[Edited on 5/1/05 by ned]
Yes but if its only needed for initial registration then it would need not show on profile and could be kept seperately for admin purposes only.
Actually your probably right chrisw probably is one of the biggest wierdo's; after all he is hosting/running this site. 
[Edited on 5/1/05 by jollygreengiant]
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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ChrisGamlin
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| posted on 17/3/05 at 03:56 PM |
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Sorry to bring this one up again, but is it possible to hide user's e-mail addresses from public view on the site like they do on most other
forums?
I too have had considerable amount of spam through my email address being on this site, I know because I own the domain I use for e-mail, so always
register for websites with individual names, eg locostbuilders at locostfireblade co uk etc, and most of the spam has come from that address. The
problem as I see it is that all our e-mail addresses are plain to see to any web crawler - if you look at anyone's profile the e-mail address is
there in regular HTML so can be poached by spam crawlers.
On other sites you have to click something to e-mail somebody which I believe can be made "invisible" to these crawlers, or the initial
contact is made via a webmail interface as Blatchat etc do.
Chris
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pgpsmith
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| posted on 6/4/05 at 03:09 AM |
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I just noticed that on the "edit profile" page there is a checkbox for "make your email address viewable by others" (which I
just unchecked after reading this thread.)
All the best,
Mr Pete "in the interests of full discosure" Byar
Live and don't learn, that's us. - Calvin and Hobbes
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