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NickyW
Starting Member
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 Posted - 23 October 2001 : 08:04:58
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Hi,
I have just installed the snitz forum on my website and have 2 questions.
1)Is there anyway to customize the forum so that members email addresses are not viewable?
2) For some reason on my forum the only person who can be made a moderator is the admin account, why can't I make other users moderators of forums?
Thanks,
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Rigger82
Junior Member
USA
311 Posts |
Posted - 24 October 2001 : 15:56:06
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First, you can disable the visual email issue by commenting out those lines that display it in the profile and the email popup files. There are some mods out there for it but a few seconds and you can easily hide them ... I did the same thing after an idiot kept harvesting them and emailing really bizzare stuff to an ever growing group.
Functions still work so you can still send email but its just not shown to everyone.
As for the second part... go into the persons PROFILE and change the dropdown (lower right) to MODERATOR and then when you go to the moderator admin screen, you'll see all available members with moderator or admin status.
Hope this helps.
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Mark Christianson
Gulf War Veteran (82nd Airborne Division)
Owner/Operator of www.paratrooper.net
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NickyW
Starting Member
2 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2001 : 05:28:10
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Thanks for your help.
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2001 : 07:16:44
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quote:
First, you can disable the visual email issue by commenting out those lines that display it in the profile and the email popup files. There are some mods out there for it but a few seconds and you can easily hide them ... I did the same thing after an idiot kept harvesting them and emailing really bizzare stuff to an ever growing group.
The hide e-mail mod is made to give your members the choice of hiding or showing their e-mail address. At first I removed the e-mail address from both the profile and pop_mail.asp but found that it was annoying because people kept asking where they should send e-mails that were meant only for me. And people had to place their e-mail address somewhere else (like in their bio) if they did want their e-mail address shown.
After getting the hide e-mail mod working some members have decided to hide their address and other (me included) have left it shown. Easy communication.
You can download the hide e-mail mod here:
http://www.frutzle.com/snitz/HideE-MailAddressMODv3.3.zip
I did not make this mod and unfortunately I'm not sure who DID make it. I will however help you should you need any help.
Roland
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heptite
Average Member
USA
547 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2001 : 09:04:11
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The Hide Email mod was done by Richard Kinser.
I've put up a few of his mods as well as some of Davio's and Da_Stimulator at:
http://www.snitz.info
Sue
Additional support files - http://www.snitz.info
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2001 : 11:43:00
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The Hide Email mod was done by Richard Kinser.
I've put up a few of his mods as well as some of Davio's and Da_Stimulator at:
http://www.snitz.info
Sue
Additional support files - http://www.snitz.info
Thanks Sue, now I know where to send people too 
Roland
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danhayes
Starting Member
19 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2001 : 14:50:33
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Hi folks,
I'm a newer member and I have been testing the Snitz board for a few days now. I have a board up and running using my Personal Web Server for testing.
I would like to install the email mod. I downloaded it to my desktop but I have a question. Should I just unzip the 5 files to my folder with all of the other files? Do I have to change any settings in the "Admin options" area?
I did not see a "readme" file in the email mod that I downloaded, so I am asking these questions.
cheers
Dan
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 29 October 2001 : 15:05:01
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What you should do is perform a search for "hide" in those files and copy & paste the modified code into your current files. Open both your current file and the file from the ZIP and compare the code so you won't copy & paste any code you don't need to. You'll get all code needed that way.
Please, do make a backup of the files you're going to edit before you edit them just in case something goes wrong.
Roland
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TimSinnott
Starting Member
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - 01 December 2001 : 21:00:03
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I downloaded the "Hide Email Address v.33 - Richard Kinser" mod, then I searched for occurences of "hide" in those 5 files. For a beginner like myself it's overwhelming to try to detect the differences.
Only last week I initially downloaded the Snitz Forums 2000 version 3.3.03, which is my base because I'm just starting with Snitz. Would it be feasible to simply substitute the 5 files in the mod into my Snitz 3.3.03? Or is that asking for trouble?
Any advice will be appreciated.
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 02 December 2001 : 06:23:25
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You can try doing that, but still do make a backup of the files you're going to replace (just in case).
Do remember that once you've installed one MOD, you will have to copy and paste the next MOD into your files. So replacing your files only works once.
Roland
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DAVEinAZ
Starting Member
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - 02 December 2001 : 14:23:19
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Not sure if I did it the lazy way or the hard way  , but I made the following changes to a clean install. Email addresses are hidden, but members are still emailable.
pop_profile.asp (replace email address with email icon)
LINE 173 before :
<td bgColor=<% =strPopUpTableColor %>><font face="<% =strDefaultFontFace %>" size="<% =strDefaultFontSize %>"> <a href="JavaScript:openWindow('pop_mail.asp?id=<% =rs("MEMBER_ID") %>')"><% =ChkString(rs("M_EMAIL"), "display") %></a> </font></td>
LINE 173 after :
<td bgColor=<% =strPopUpTableColor %>><font face="<% =strDefaultFontFace %>" size="<% =strDefaultFontSize %>"> <a href="JavaScript:openWindow('pop_mail.asp?id=<% =rs("MEMBER_ID") %>')"><img border="0" src="icon_email.gif"></a> </font></td>
pop_mail.asp (hide address)
DELETED LINES 174-177
Then added LINE 173 as :
<input type=hidden name="Email" value="<% =rs("M_EMAIL") %>">
Haven't had any problems with it yet...
dave
http://www.mediaslice.com/usathome
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Fanaddict
Starting Member
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Posted - 02 December 2001 : 18:46:32
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Not sure if I did it the lazy way or the hard way , but I made the following changes to a clean install. Email addresses are hidden, but members are still emailable.
pop_profile.asp (replace email address with email icon)
LINE 173 before :
<td bgColor=<% =strPopUpTableColor %>><font face="<% =strDefaultFontFace %>" size="<% =strDefaultFontSize %>"> <a href="JavaScript:openWindow('pop_mail.asp?id=<% =rs("MEMBER_ID") %>')"><% =ChkString(rs("M_EMAIL"), "display") %></a> </font></td>
LINE 173 after :
<td bgColor=<% =strPopUpTableColor %>><font face="<% =strDefaultFontFace %>" size="<% =strDefaultFontSize %>"> <a href="JavaScript:openWindow('pop_mail.asp?id=<% =rs("MEMBER_ID") %>')"><img border="0" src="icon_email.gif"></a> </font></td>
pop_mail.asp (hide address)
DELETED LINES 174-177
Then added LINE 173 as :
<input type=hidden name="Email" value="<% =rs("M_EMAIL") %>">
Haven't had any problems with it yet...
dave
http://www.mediaslice.com/usathome
Do you have a zip file ready made that includes these adjustments?
I downloaded what Frutzle suggested and then just transferred the pop_profile and pop_mail files on to my server as Tim suggested and that changed the links to the emails, but the emails where still visible from the pop_mail page. I tried to add the other files that came with the download, but then I started getting errors, specifically when trying to register a new user and I abandoned that technique thereafter. Restored the register file and all is back to normal. So if anybody has an easy fix for a novice like me, that would be greatly appreciated. |
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Fanaddict
Starting Member
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Posted - 03 December 2001 : 01:07:53
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Ok... came across another ODBC error, so just uploading and replacing the files isn't such a hot idea.
The error came up when I tried to changed the rank of a member from one level to another in pop_profile.
Anybody have this working stable with the emails hidden help! |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 03 December 2001 : 03:57:30
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You can try doing that, but still do make a backup of the files you're going to replace (just in case).
I hope you did that?
If you can't get it to work, let me know what version of the forums you've downloaded (name of the ZIP) and whether or not you've edited inc_profile.asp, pop_mail.asp, pop_profile.asp, register.asp or topic.asp before you tried installing the hide e-mail mod.
Roland
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TimSinnott
Starting Member
USA
16 Posts |
Posted - 03 December 2001 : 11:57:16
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Thanks everybody for the help already given in this thread.
A related question:
If the objective of Hide-Email is to prevent a user's email (if they've chosen) from being discovered by another user, then in the present scheme, if someone has the ability, through the pop-email, to still send an email to that user, can't the sender just examine Outlook to see where the email went?
I've not seen it in action, so maybe I'm misunderstanding it.
Tim Sinnott |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 03 December 2001 : 13:58:14
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If the objective of Hide-Email is to prevent a user's email (if they've chosen) from being discovered by another user, then in the present scheme, if someone has the ability, through the pop-email, to still send an email to that user, can't the sender just examine Outlook to see where the email went?
No, you can't possibly see who you sent the e-mail to in any of your e-mail programs as the e-mail is sent via the server and the user's computer isn't involved in it.
If you send a topic to a friend from this forum, you won't be able to find the info of that e-mail back in your e-mail software either.
Roland
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