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15 | <B>Arathorn</B> | |
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17 | TITLE="[IRCServices] Merging...">arathorn at theonering.net | |
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34 | <PRE>Andrew Church wrote: | |
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36 | ><i> >When I upgraded to v5, a strategic temporary addition of email=0; to | |
37 | </I>><i> >modules/database/version4.c served to perform the same operation. | |
38 | </I>However, | |
39 | ><i> >we then found a somewhat undesired sideeffect - namely that because in v4 | |
40 | </I>><i> >days, NSDefHideEmail had been commented out - old registered users | |
41 | </I>migrating | |
42 | ><i> >onto v5 were duly forced to enter valid e-mail addresses - **which were | |
43 | </I>then | |
44 | ><i> >visible for the whole world to see on a /msg nickserv info Nickname.** | |
45 | </I>><i> | |
46 | </I>><i> Seeing as this can be easily changed with a /ns set hide email on | |
47 | </I>><i> immediately after identify -> set email -> auth, and unauthed addresses | |
48 | </I>><i> aren't visible to normal users, I don't see this as a problem. | |
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50 | My concern is that your average clueless user isn't going to know to /ns set | |
51 | hide email on - even if they're told to do it in bright red letters. My | |
52 | experience in talking registered users through /ns set email and /ns auth | |
53 | has been bad enough - and those are steps that the system corralled them | |
54 | through - whereas there's no way to obviously force them to /ns set hide | |
55 | email. | |
56 | ||
57 | And thus depending on the previous v4 config, there's a 50/50 chance that | |
58 | their mail might be left open in the public gaze, ripe for harvesting. It | |
59 | just seems to be putting the users through a bit more trauma than is | |
60 | strictly necessary. Of course, it could be that my users tend to be more | |
61 | clueless than the average network's - but I'd feel slightly worried about | |
62 | leaving their e-mail privacy in their own hands ;) | |
63 | ||
64 | my 2p, anyway | |
65 | ||
66 | A. | |
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68 | ________________________________________________________________ | |
69 | Matthew Hodgson <A HREF="http://www.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">arathorn at theonering.net</A> Tel: +44 7968 722968 | |
70 | Arathorn: Co-Sysadmin, TheOneRing.net® | |
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