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  15     <B>Arathorn</B>
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  34 <PRE>Andrew Church wrote:
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  36 &gt;<i> &gt;When I upgraded to v5, a strategic temporary addition of email=0; to
  37 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;modules/database/version4.c served to perform the same operation.
  38 </I>However,
  39 &gt;<i> &gt;we then found a somewhat undesired sideeffect - namely that because in v4
  40 </I>&gt;<i> &gt;days, NSDefHideEmail had been commented out - old registered users
  41 </I>migrating
  42 &gt;<i> &gt;onto v5 were duly forced to enter valid e-mail addresses - **which were
  43 </I>then
  44 &gt;<i> &gt;visible for the whole world to see on a /msg nickserv info Nickname.**
  45 </I>&gt;<i>
  46 </I>&gt;<i>      Seeing as this can be easily changed with a /ns set hide email on
  47 </I>&gt;<i> immediately after identify -&gt; set email -&gt; auth, and unauthed addresses
  48 </I>&gt;<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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  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&#174;
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