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Valtiel God Member Offline Copy & paste coder Posts: 873 Joined: Sep 5^th, 2003 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #60 - Sep 18^th, 2004 at 12:11pm	Print Post
	Yeah, it surely cuts a fine figure

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thecaretaker Junior Member Offline I am thecaretaker Posts: 87 Location: 1066 Country Joined: Dec 5^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #61 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 9:54am	Print Post
	Hello Ron, Great mod and seems to be working fine on my forum. I do have a question for you though. Maybe you can put my mind to rest. I notice when looking at the members .dat files, the email address of my members is not encrypted or slit up in any way. I have added a no robots script to keep bots out of my cgi-bin, but I understand this only works for honest robots and not the rouges. Does Yabb have any system/mechanism to prevent the exposure of email addresses in the members files? If it does, I'll be very pleased (and maybe you could give a brief description of how it works). However, if it does not, maybe it would be a good idea to add something like encryption or splitting the address up into different files in the next version so that bots can't grab addresses. Just a thought!

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Valtiel God Member Offline Copy & paste coder Posts: 873 Joined: Sep 5^th, 2003 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #62 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 10:09am	Print Post
	Hm, how should bots have access to the cgi-bin folder? Normally it's protected from server side and/or .htaccess files so you can't call it from browsers or similar.

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thecaretaker Junior Member Offline I am thecaretaker Posts: 87 Location: 1066 Country Joined: Dec 5^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #63 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 10:43am	Print Post
	To be honest, I don't know how these web bots work. I'm happy if this is the case. Prolly explains why my forum posts don't show up in Google then I get a bit paranoid about security Thanks for the info!

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Spikecity God Member Offline Beer anyone ? Posts: 2630 Location: New York Joined: Apr 16^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #64 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 11:38am	Print Post
	thecaretaker wrote on Sep 28^th, 2004 at 9:54am: Hello Ron, Great mod and seems to be working fine on my forum. I do have a question for you though. Maybe you can put my mind to rest. I notice when looking at the members .dat files, the email address of my members is not encrypted or slit up in any way. I have added a no robots script to keep bots out of my cgi-bin, but I understand this only works for honest robots and not the rouges. Does Yabb have any system/mechanism to prevent the exposure of email addresses in the members files? If it does, I'll be very pleased (and maybe you could give a brief description of how it works). However, if it does not, maybe it would be a good idea to add something like encryption or splitting the address up into different files in the next version so that bots can't grab addresses. Just a thought! As Valtiel wrote, on any nix based webserver the /Members dir is protected by the .htaccess file not allowing bots or anyone else but the mainscript in. On IIS and some Windows server there are separate measures you have to take to protect the .dat files. Simplest test to see if your datfiles are secure is to try and call one up through your browser like http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/yabb/Members/admin.dat If you get a 403 error or any other access denied or file not found error you can be pretty sure that if you can't get it so can't the bots.

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Valtiel God Member Offline Copy & paste coder Posts: 873 Joined: Sep 5^th, 2003 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #65 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 11:39am	Print Post
	@thecaretaker: Well, the normal search engine bots have the same rights than any browsers do. They can only follow those links which are shown on your page. For example if you close your board or single forums for guest, also bots cannot "see" them anymore. And they also aren't able to go into your cgi-bin and browse your .dat files That's all for normal bots. There might be "evil" bots which have other abilities. I don't know about that. But for the normal bots the method how Ron "encrypts" mail addresses works fine as the mail links are stealthed and the bots can only index the stealthed links which aren't useful for them to collect any mail addresses.

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thecaretaker Junior Member Offline I am thecaretaker Posts: 87 Location: 1066 Country Joined: Dec 5^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #66 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 12:25pm	Print Post
	I'm with it now. Many thanks to both of you for explaining it. I did the check Ron and I got 'Forbidden' you do not have permission to access this file. Cheers again!

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Spikecity God Member Offline Beer anyone ? Posts: 2630 Location: New York Joined: Apr 16^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #67 - Sep 28^th, 2004 at 2:02pm	Print Post
	thecaretaker wrote on Sep 28^th, 2004 at 12:25pm: I'm with it now. Many thanks to both of you for explaining it. I did the check Ron and I got 'Forbidden' you do not have permission to access this file. Cheers again! You're most welcome, enjoy the mod

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thecaretaker Junior Member Offline I am thecaretaker Posts: 87 Location: 1066 Country Joined: Dec 5^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #68 - Oct 5^th, 2004 at 7:12pm	Print Post
	Hello Ron. I found a rare but annoying glitch. Some addresses show up as .co.DJ or .co.uJ instead of .co.uk. Would an email address that had more than 2 full stops be a problem? I have a user with office @ name.essex.sch.uk and it replaces the uk with DJ It only happens for a very few user addresses, most are fine and the addresses it happens to only seem to have normal charaters/numbers (no minuses or under scores). I've removed the mod for a while in hope you might have an idea why this happens. I don't have YAMS and I did upload the latest version.

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Spikecity God Member Offline Beer anyone ? Posts: 2630 Location: New York Joined: Apr 16^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #69 - Oct 5^th, 2004 at 8:30pm	Print Post
	thecaretaker wrote on Oct 5^th, 2004 at 7:12pm: Hello Ron. I found a rare but annoying glitch. Some addresses show up as .co.DJ or .co.uJ instead of .co.uk. Would an email address that had more than 2 full stops be a problem? I have a user with office @ name.essex.sch.uk and it replaces the uk with DJ It only happens for a very few user addresses, most are fine and the addresses it happens to only seem to have normal charaters/numbers (no minuses or under scores). I've removed the mod for a while in hope you might have an idea why this happens. I don't have YAMS and I did upload the latest version. That's strange, I'll look into that one

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thecaretaker Junior Member Offline I am thecaretaker Posts: 87 Location: 1066 Country Joined: Dec 5^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #70 - Oct 5^th, 2004 at 8:46pm	Print Post
	It was the same in both profile and memberlist if that makes any difference. Thanks Ron for looking at it for me. Your a star!

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Spikecity God Member Offline Beer anyone ? Posts: 2630 Location: New York Joined: Apr 16^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #71 - Oct 5^th, 2004 at 8:50pm	Print Post
	thecaretaker wrote on Oct 5^th, 2004 at 8:46pm: It was the same in both profile and memberlist if that makes any difference. Thanks Ron for looking at it for me. Your a star! The same en/decryption is used throughout the mod so if it screws up once it does so everywhere. Working on it

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Spikecity God Member Offline Beer anyone ? Posts: 2630 Location: New York Joined: Apr 16^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #72 - Oct 5^th, 2004 at 9:07pm	Print Post
	Mmmm, can't reproduce it with office@name.essex.sch.uk on my board, can you give me a link to your board so I can see what happens ?

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Kong God Member Offline Is it just me or is my back hairy??? Posts: 858 Joined: Aug 2^nd, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #73 - Feb 11^th, 2005 at 12:19am	Print Post
	Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Is this the latest version? Did it ever go beyond this or out of Beta? I dont' see it anything else anywhere so I thought I would ask.


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Spikecity God Member Offline Beer anyone ? Posts: 2630 Location: New York Joined: Apr 16^th, 2002 Gender:	Re: Stealth Email Addresses V1.0a SP1.3.x Reply #74 - Feb 11^th, 2005 at 1:38pm	Print Post
	This is the last version and should be taken to the final versions and into the database.

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