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crouse

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From: Iowa - USA

Registered: 2006-08-19

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Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

I was wondering if it would be possible to set the forum software to hide a specific thread/section from anyone not logged in. 

Specifically I had in mind the email signup thread here. It would be nice to hide at least this specific thread from anyone NOT logged in, so as to keep the spam bots from harvesting the emails ..... Just a thought   Not sure if this forum software allows threads to be hidden or just entire catagories.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

Could have it moved to offtopic, which is hidden from those not logged in

crouse

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From: Iowa - USA

Registered: 2006-08-19

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Re: Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

Could have it moved to offtopic, which is hidden from those not logged in

I suppose, but it really belongs in community, so I don't want to do that. 
It was just a thought.... I might mention in the thread to remove the blah blah @ email address... to prevent bots from harvesting their emails.  Thanks for the reply.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

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Re: Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

to prevent bots from harvesting their emails.

Exactly why mine was requested through email crouse .

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Dusty

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Re: Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

Could have it moved to offtopic, which is hidden from those not logged in

I suppose, but it really belongs in community, so I don't want to do that. 
It was just a thought.... I might mention in the thread to remove the blah blah @ email address... to prevent bots from harvesting their emails.  Thanks for the reply.

We could move it to off topic and put a new locked topic in community contrib to tell people to sign up in the other thread. You might be better off to quickly set up a web form to allow people to submit requests via e-mail though.

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crouse

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From: Iowa - USA

Registered: 2006-08-19

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Re: Making a forum thread/section hidden from anyone NOT logged in.

I just posted this:

PREVENT BOT HARVESTING !! Please don't post the entire email address you want! (bots will scan pages and harvest your email address)...... please just post the USERNAME you want for the email address.  I'm smart enought to figure out the rest of it lol.  Post something like:

I'd like to have "USERNAME". Thanks.

If you already HAVE posted your entire email address....... i suggest editing your own post and removing the "@archlinux.us" part.  Just a friendly tip

in the thread ..... TWICE.  If people don't follow the suggestions, then the spam will be their OWN problem   I think the thread fits in community better than anywhere else, so I say just leave it there.  Eventually I might setup some sort of form to automate the whole process, I've got about half of it done actually, but for now this seems to work best for me.