Link to email article authors directly
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I was trying to contact a couple of authors privately today, and after having a good look at both their articles and their profiles, I couldn't find any way to send them a private message. In fact, the only means I found was to track down their answers to the feedback on their articles, and use the Email link in their posts there. I can sort of understand not having one in the articles, as it forces feedback onto the website for others to read. But it would make sense to have one in the author details. Or am I just being dozy and missed it? :)
There used to be one. Then some sort of bot started spamming authors. Now there isn't one... :sigh:
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Our members were getting hassled, spammed, threatended - you name it. We pulled the "Email Author" link to stop this.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Thanks for the response. I suspected something similar - it seemed an odd omission. :) Is there some kind of safeguard on the remaining Email link in the forums, then?
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Thanks for the response. I suspected something similar - it seemed an odd omission. :) Is there some kind of safeguard on the remaining Email link in the forums, then?
Private emails to people in the forums haven't seemed to be as much of an issue.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Private emails to people in the forums haven't seemed to be as much of an issue.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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You know he does raise a good point..... You should allow the de-activation of private emails.
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Bradml wrote:
You know he does raise a good point
That would be "she" I think :rolleyes: (Emma)
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Bradml wrote:
You know he does raise a good point
That would be "she" I think :rolleyes: (Emma)
Regards, Nish
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New keyboard, still getting used to it...
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There used to be one. Then some sort of bot started spamming authors. Now there isn't one... :sigh:
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How about CAPTCHA? CodeProject has an article: Creating CAPTCHA-Like Functionality in ASP.NET[^]. Jeff
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How about CAPTCHA? CodeProject has an article: Creating CAPTCHA-Like Functionality in ASP.NET[^]. Jeff
CAPTCHA is a good idea; combined with the form that already exists to email people directly (which hides the recipient's email address), it should reduce the amount of spam a link on the author page might create. I've also found on my own sites that naming the form fields things like "xcbg" rather than "Name", "Message" etc, seemed to confuse a lot of spambots.
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How about CAPTCHA? CodeProject has an article: Creating CAPTCHA-Like Functionality in ASP.NET[^]. Jeff
It's not just bots, but Real PeopleTM using the link to harrass authors. Each time it happened I'd get dozens and dozens of emails from confused readers. The email would originate from CodeProject but would be from someone else and it looked like the spam emails were blessed by CodeProject. So it ended.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP