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Topic!Cindy - Oct 14, 2005 1:52:46 pm PDT #659 of 4671
What is even happening?

I left Natter loaded with this as the last post: Topic!Cindy "Natter 39 and Holding" Oct 14, 2005 3:06:46 pm PDT

I just came back, and hit the message center link at the bottom of the page, and got the following error message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';', expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/email.php on line 51

§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 1:54:23 pm PDT #660 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Fixed now.

§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 1:56:52 pm PDT #661 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay -- I've double-triple checked we can't be used as a relay. However, I can't think of a way to reliably weed out the bastards.

DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 4:38:43 pm PDT #662 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

If they're using the 'e-mail admins" form, can we capture their IP address? Would that do us any good, or is it likely to be fake?

Can we stop b.org return addresses from being accepted?

§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 4:51:54 pm PDT #663 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can embed that information into the e-mails. Let's see if anything comes of it.

As for blocking b.org addresses -- dammit, I hate those kids. We shouldn't have to do that. There are legit (though avoidable) reasons to accept b.org addresses.

DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 5:16:08 pm PDT #664 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

We shouldn't have to do that.

Yeah, I know.

DXMachina - Oct 14, 2005 5:22:06 pm PDT #665 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Although, thinking about the e-mail form a bit, do we need it, as opposed to just using a mailto link? The form is nice because is fills in the user's default e-mail address, but most of the messages we get are from people who either aren't Buffistas yet, or have forgotten their username or password, and therefore aren't logged in anyway. For them, the form doesn't really provide any more functionality than a mailto would, does it?

§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 5:32:08 pm PDT #666 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The form means that people who don't have access to their e-mail clients can still send messages to the admins.

Eddie - Oct 14, 2005 5:39:36 pm PDT #667 of 4671
Your tag here.

can we capture their IP address

You'll want to be careful about blocking IP addresses. You can quickly block all aol.com users because they use proxy servers, for example.

a mailto link

Spambots look for mailto links, so that may make things worse. This may help with this problem, however: [link]

Edit: ita makes a good point about email clients.

§ ita § - Oct 14, 2005 5:42:14 pm PDT #668 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We already have a mailto link on the page. That genie's out of the bottle.

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