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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2004
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Hi
I think I've been right through the cp - but I can't find the answer.
Is there a way to hide ALL email addresses?
i.e. members who are new registrants may choose to hide their email address ...but older members may still have their email addresses set as visible.
(Just trying to protect them from spammers.)
Cheers,
d.
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 16,532 Likes: 150
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easy way, only permit registered users to lookup profile data...
Hard way, sql query (too tired to craft one right now)
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 16,532 Likes: 150
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Joined: Jun 2006
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hmm, i'm looking and i can't see it; is there an option to not display your email address? may just be because i'm tired...
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Joined: Jun 2006
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Former Developer
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Former Developer
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That's why there are 2 email address fields. One for your real email addy that is used for any notifications, and one that is shown on your public profile. The one in your public profile can be left empty if you don't want your email address to show.
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 16,532 Likes: 150
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Joined: Jun 2006
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I have a perfect comprimise! Go and edit templates/default/showprofile.tpl, find: <td valign="top">
<a href="mailto:{$Fakeemail}">{$Fakeemail}</a>
</td>And replace it with: <td valign="top"> </td> ... Wham, no email address shown ever ... Though I much prefer just allowing people to set what they want their public email displayed as, hey, if they WANT it seen, then why not let them set it... Not to mention, you can block guests viewing profiles, which would ban any non-logged in users which includes random bots.
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Joined: Jan 2004
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jan 2004
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Actually Gizmo, I think this will work perfectly. I can use it to hide users emails, whilst I make a board-wide announcement that a spammer is currently trying to harvest their addresses. This will allow them to hide their emails in the interim period. Then I'll add the announcement to the newsletter to cover users that haven't been on the site for a few weeks. 2-3 weeks later - I'll lift the 'mod' and anyone who wants their email viewable will get just that. Everyone's a winner!  Cheers mate  d.
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Joined: Jun 2006
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I think an easier one would ahve been to just set the public email for all users to "Address Hidden", but 'eh manyw ays to do the same thing lol
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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...but as I said "retrospectively"
Many users will have registered via Classic and not changed their settings, since way back when...
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Joined: Aug 2007
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newbie
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We run a rather contraversal message board and often have people trying to subvert our position. For this reason we need to keep communication in the open, doing our best to limit behind the scenes communication. To this end we prefer to not give our members the ability to get each others email address or to send one another private messages. At least through our message board.
Having an option (as was the case in the version we upgraded from) we were able to hide members email address.
I used the showprofile.tpl mod suggested by Gizmo and it works very nicely. However I prefer not to have customized code that will get altered in a future upgrade.
Having such a feature in a future version would be greatly welcome.
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