Edd
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| Posted: 01/01/2004, 2:28 PM |
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Hi All - now that this forum is active I am petitioning it to be ReadOnly for guests and All Posts must be Registered Users.
I came across an EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE RACIST post that was removed (by the administrators) just as I was composing a message to Yes Software to have it removed.
I see no reason why people cannot register to put up posts.
If you are in agreement please add your names to this reply.
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| Posted: 01/01/2004, 2:43 PM |
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I didn't realise that you could reply without being registered.
It's true you can.
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Hebron
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| Posted: 01/01/2004, 5:43 PM |
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I Do agree that guests should onl have read only and the registered users can post  . BTW I submitting without loging on
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David Harrison
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| Posted: 01/02/2004, 9:19 AM |
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I agree.
David Harrison
"Edd" <Edd@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
news:23ff4a05c07c2c@news.codecharge.com...
> Hi All - now that this forum is active I am petitioning it to be ReadOnly
for guests and All Posts must be Registered Users.
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> I came across an EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE RACIST post that was removed (by the
administrators) just as I was composing a message to Yes Software to have it
removed.
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> I see no reason why people cannot register to put up posts.
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> If you are in agreement please add your names to this reply.
> ---------------------------------------
> Sent from YesSoftware forum
> http://forums.codecharge.com/
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| Posted: 01/02/2004, 10:33 AM |
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Quote Edd:
Hi All - now that this forum is active I am petitioning it to be ReadOnly for guests and All Posts must be Registered Users.
I came across an EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE RACIST post that was removed (by the administrators) just as I was composing a message to Yes Software to have it removed.
I see no reason why people cannot register to put up posts.
If you are in agreement please add your names to this reply.
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CarlJoshi
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| Posted: 01/02/2004, 4:39 PM |
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I agree that only registered members should be able to post in the forum.
Carl
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PetrP
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| Posted: 01/02/2004, 7:56 PM |
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Quote Edd:
Hi All - now that this forum is active I am petitioning it to be ReadOnly for guests and All Posts must be Registered Users.
I came across an EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE RACIST post that was removed (by the administrators) just as I was composing a message to Yes Software to have it removed.
I see no reason why people cannot register to put up posts.
If you are in agreement please add your names to this reply.
Edd,
The post was removed after I have submitted a request to do so over the "Registered Users Support" section.
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PetrP
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| Posted: 01/02/2004, 8:03 PM |
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I think this should be a Registered Users Forum. Afterall, if you anyone is afraid to register then they might be hiding something. Perhaps the use a bootleg copy of CCS ?
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Todd
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| Posted: 01/03/2004, 4:47 PM |
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I agree.
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Bil Simser
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| Posted: 01/04/2004, 10:17 AM |
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"Edd" <Edd@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
news:23ff4a05c07c2c@news.codecharge.com...
> Hi All - now that this forum is active I am petitioning it to be ReadOnly
for guests and All Posts must be Registered Users.
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> I came across an EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE RACIST post that was removed (by the
administrators) just as I was composing a message to Yes Software to have it
removed.
Hi guys,
I totally agree but since this thing syncs with news groups (I'm posting
from outlook express right now) it's open to everyone. Hence that's why
there's a flood of offending posts. They're from people posting from
newsreaders (either locally or on the web) and don't require any
authentication. They're also spoofing users like rrogers and such and making
the messages look like they came from the forum. This is the problem with ng
based messsages. There's no security unless Yes locks down the news server,
which I think they can.
-Bil
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RoskO
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| Posted: 01/05/2004, 8:04 AM |
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I agree, it's rediculous to think you wont have forum issues with allowing guests to post. I run a few forums, and have learned my lesson the hard way. If you allow guests to post there isn't much accountability, and no deterrent to make it a little more difficult to post.
Come on guys, if a user doesn't want to register there's probably a reason.
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peterr
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| Posted: 01/05/2004, 9:21 PM |
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Hi All,
Thanks to those who brought this issue to our attention via our support system.
We are considering your suggestions of requiring user registrations, although as Bil noted some posts can be made directly via Newsgroups. Therefore we are looking at other possible solutions, such as moderating the forums, keyword filtering, etc.
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aradi
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| Posted: 01/06/2004, 3:21 AM |
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Me too agree
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stone
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| Posted: 01/09/2004, 6:04 AM |
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Quote :We are considering your suggestions of requiring user registrations, although as Bil noted some posts can be made directly via Newsgroups. Therefore we are looking at other possible solutions, such as moderating the forums, keyword filtering, etc.
You should not be too hard to make your newsgroups read only for people who did not register. You just have to disable posting for anonymous users in your ng software and keep the allowed posters list in sync with the registered users from forums.codecharge.com.
-stone
Christoph
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rmassey
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| Posted: 01/13/2004, 9:50 PM |
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I agree for the guest as read only. Although if they are hiding something and their minds are spoiled then they could spoof the system with a bogus user. 
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Arnor Baldvinsson
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| Posted: 01/13/2004, 10:36 PM |
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Hi all,
"Edd" <Edd@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
news:23ff4a05c07c2c@news.codecharge.com...
> Hi All - now that this forum is active I am petitioning it to be ReadOnly
for guests and All Posts must be Registered Users.
I completely agree. I have been active in development support on a number
of forums private and public and private is definitely the way to go for
direct product support groups like these:)
Best regards,
Arnor Baldvinsson
Icetips Software
San Antonio, Texas
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peterr
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| Posted: 01/14/2004, 12:59 AM |
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I'm not sure that everyone here understands that there is not a problem with making the Forum postings available to registered users, but it is not trival with Newsgroups.
If you notice, almost all newsgroups on the Internet are accessible to everyone, including Microsoft's, Macromedia's, Borland's, etc.
There is simply not a way to "register for newsgroups". All newsreaders allow accessing newsgroups but there is not a registration form.
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jstuart
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| Posted: 01/14/2004, 4:56 AM |
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Peterr, you CAN make news servers that are password protected... OR you could drop the syncing with newsgroup option entirely. IMNSHO, that would be the better way to go.
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Arnor Baldvinsson
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| Posted: 01/14/2004, 4:28 PM |
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Hi Peter,
"peterr" <peterr@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
news:2400504de0a406@news.codecharge.com...
> I'm not sure that everyone here understands that there is not a problem
with making the Forum postings available to registered users, but it is not
trival with Newsgroups.
You need to enforce authentication on the nntp server. On another private
forum we use the product serial numbers as the username for authentication.
It has worked well
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Arnor Baldvinsson
Icetips Software
San Antonio, Texas
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Anton
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| Posted: 05/19/2004, 7:59 AM |
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I completely agree.
In addition, if the forum required registration then I would feel better about it. I would then feel able to use my email address.
I just don't want an open forum to have an email harvester robot adding me to a spam list.
Anton Hinxman
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drew
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| Posted: 07/24/2004, 5:56 PM |
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i entirely agree with Jeff and others. Registration is a must, and these sorts of forums are just too valuable to worry about syncing with newsgroups. To be more clear, regardless of how i felt about the product, if the forum is not active, i likely would not purchase, and if the forum was full of garbage, again, i likely would not purchase.
If a vote counts: make these registered posters only, let the newsgroups slide. Your forum is like a social resume, more and more, folks just you by them, just my $.02, drew..
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