| Re: Post 2.6.0 TODO - email message format [message #16451 is a reply to message #16447] |
Fri, 30 January 2004 17:51   |
Olliver
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| Ilia wrote on Fri, 30 January 2004 16:44 |
IP logging is for the most part pointless. For example I have a DSL connection, which means that everytime I connect/disconnect my IP changes. Moreover, even if I stay connected 24/7 my IP would still change once a day. Most DSL providers also have many different IP masks, meaning that you can't even ban me by a small mask, without banning an entire ISP with tens of thousands (if not hundred thousands) of users. Bottom line is that very few people have static IPs, so tracking them is pretty pointless.
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Why is it pointless to know that someone is using a particular ISP? I think it's well known that most IP addresses will change after a disconnect. Persons may also tend to use anonymous proxies. My thought was rather, you already know that someone hides behind a registerred name and you only need to look up his/her current proxy used while registerring and add it to the block list.
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Unless you choose to manually confirm every account, waiting for an e-mail confirmation before showing the user's info is mostly pointless. Trolls will usually have >1 e-mail address and will be able to confirm the account easily. Since 'newest user' data is cached, by the time the cache is refreshed in most cases new account is already confirmed anyway.
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You didn't get my point. You assume that people are registerring in order to get to the forum as confirmed users. But you can register with any non existing phantasy address. You won't be able to confirm it but still it shows up as new user until it will expire as unconfirmed. And stopping that annoyance is pointless? Seems you weren't carefully considering the implication of the current behaviour. Someone doesn't need to have an email address: It's sufficient to keep a valid format. So my argument is all but pointless.
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I am suprised to hear win32 would mangle a simple URL, I have not see any reports to this effect previusly. Perhaps the issue is similar to the one some KDE's Kmail users experience where e-mail client would pre-open URLs inside the e-mail effectively confirming the user automatically. The effect is when they click on the confirmation URL they get an error since the account is already confirmed.
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I can only follow it in the error log. But the key seems to be people using html formatted mails and clients messing it up (Like Outlook Express). Outlook Express is known to add line breaks to a long URL so the clickable link (generated by the program) is trashed.
Olliver
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