New Secure Format-Can't Find E-mail Addresses

Andrew:

 

The new secure format is great. I hope we will see less fake e-mails and other B.S (i.e. 666@hell) on photo.net.

 

Question: How do we find the e-mail of a poster we would like to communicate with privately??

Gene, I agree that the new software is great. The credit for the rewrite belongs to our generous host <a href="http://www.photo.net/philg/">Philip Greenspun</a>.

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I've been finding my way around the software myself. If you click on a person's name you get a page which shows their history, and their email address. The great thing about this is that you need to log-on to get there, so hopefully spammers won't be able to get at email addresses.

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The names associated with email addresses have been grabbed from one of the poster's previous posts. If it's wrong, it is possible to change your details.

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I'm sure there will be more questions about the new software. Post them here & I'll try and help out.

See also the discussion that is happening in photo.net Q&A. Warning: it is not at all secure (yet). For example, see my posts in that discussion.

Andrew:

 

I tried clicking on a name and I get history, but no e-mail address.

Am I doing something wrong?

I like this idea.

Small problem, my name comes up as just Al not my entire name as it should. I think i created this problem by not entering my full name everytime.

 

Anyway for me to fix it? Should read Altaf Shaikh

Gene, to answer your question, you have to have logged in to see other people's email addreses. I think you may also see email addreses if you have logged in previously and accepted a cookie while posting (you checked the 'remember this login/password combination').

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Trouble is that it looks like you're not asked to log in until you either try to ask or answer a question. So you can't see other's email addresses until you do this. I guess this is a bug - please email me or post to this thread if you think you find others.

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You may also want to read the thread <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000N0q">New photo.net ID system question</a> where this new system is also being discussed.

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I think that having logged in you should be able to change your name details by clicking on a posting with your own name.

To change your name, if you're not happy with the name the system has defaulted to, click on the <a href="http://www.photo.net/pvt/home.tcl">photo.net</a> link on the first page (or click here)<p>

There's an option there to update your name, and add your own web link if you want.

Wonderful, thank you very much.

I agree with the positive comments. We owe many thanks to all those who keep making this a better place to visit.