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Hello everyone,

 

We are happy to announce that we are now providing web browser access to CadSoft's support forums.  We are now mirroring these forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca.

 

Anything you post to these groups will be forwarded to CadSoft's news servers.  Any new messages on the news servers will be updated every few minutes.

 

Every message ever posted to these newsgroups is available.  And now it is possible to quickly search across forums for the answers you are looking for.

 

We take spam very seriously as does CadSoft.  By default, non-registered or registered users can't post or reply to messages.  In order to be able to create and reply to posts, you must email mailto:perms@eaglecentral.ca and request the ability to post.  Please include your login ID and/or email account.  It's unfortunate that this is necessary, but we intend to honor the very high SNR of posts on the CadSoft news servers.

 

NOTE:  If you have posted to any of CadSoft's forums in the past or registered with the EET forums, then an account has automatically been created for you.  However, everyone must reset their password to gain access:  The process is:

 

1)  Click on login link.

2)  Click on the "Forgot Password" link

3)  Enter your email.

4)  Click on the link you receive in the email.  This will send a second email with the new password.

5)  Use the password from the second email to login.

 

Enjoy,

 

James.

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Browser access to CadSoft Support Forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca

 

  • James Morrison wrote:

    Hello everyone,

     

    We are happy to announce that we are now providing web browser access to

    CadSoft's support forums.  We are now mirroring these forums at

    http://www.eaglecentral.ca.

     

    Can you please immediately change it so it is not browsable until you

    log in to it.  Or close it.

     

    As is, it is open for email harvesting by spammers!!

     

  • temp wrote on Tue, 18 November 2008 07:15

    James Morrison wrote:

    Hello everyone,

     

    We are happy to announce that we are now providing web browser access to

    CadSoft's support forums.  We are now mirroring these forums at

    http://www.eaglecentral.ca.

     

    Can you please immediately change it so it is not browsable until you

    log in to it.  Or close it.

     

    As is, it is open for email harvesting by spammers!!

     

     

    I have taken care to make sure that email addresses aren't available if you aren't logged in.  If there is a place I missed please do let me know.  Without logging in you can see the name of the person/account who posted, but the email address should not be accessible.

     

    Cheers,

     

    James.

    --

    James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

     

    email:  sales@eaglecentral.ca

    fax:    888.701.8097

    web:    http://www.eaglecentral.ca

     

    Online EAGLE Dealer for US and Canada

    EAGLE Design Experts

    EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit

    --

     

    Browser access to CadSoft Support Forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca

     

  • temp wrote on Tue, 18 November 2008 07:15

    James Morrison wrote:

    Hello everyone,

     

    We are happy to announce that we are now providing web browser access to

    CadSoft's support forums.  We are now mirroring these forums at

    http://www.eaglecentral.ca.

     

    Can you please immediately change it so it is not browsable until you

    log in to it.  Or close it.

     

    As is, it is open for email harvesting by spammers!!

     

     

    Further to my initial response...

     

    I am concerned about this and just in case I missed something, I logged out and viewed the source of a few pages.  The only email address there is my own.

     

    If you do see an instance where this isn't the case, please do let me know.

     

    Cheers,

     

    James.

    --

    James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

     

    email:  sales@eaglecentral.ca

    fax:    888.701.8097

    web:    http://www.eaglecentral.ca

     

    Online EAGLE Dealer for US and Canada

    EAGLE Design Experts

    EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit

    --

     

    Browser access to CadSoft Support Forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca

     

  • James Morrison wrote:

    temp wrote on Tue, 18 November 2008 07:15

    James Morrison wrote:

    Hello everyone,

    We are happy to announce that we are now providing web browser

    access to > CadSoft's support forums.  We are now mirroring these

    forums at > http://www.eaglecentral.ca.

     

    Can you please immediately change it so it is not browsable until

    you log in to it.  Or close it.

     

    As is, it is open for email harvesting by spammers!!

     

    Further to my initial response...

     

    I am concerned about this and just in case I missed something, I logged

    out and viewed the source of a few pages.  The only email address there

    is my own.

     

    If you do see an instance where this isn't the case, please do let me know.

     

    Cheers,

     

    James.

     

    Ah, well it is half OK

     

    You can not see the users registered email

     

    BUT as the messages are browsable without logging in, any email that any

    user have put in a sig, or if they are for some reason sharing adress

    for direct communication (bug hunting etc).

     

    Maybe I am a bit sensitive.

    What do other people think?

     

  • Morgan Leijström schrieb:

     

    BUT as the messages are browsable without logging in, any email that any

    user have put in a sig, or if they are for some reason sharing adress

    for direct communication (bug hunting etc).

     

    Maybe I am a bit sensitive.

    What do other people think?

     

    All this information is available anyway. Note that the complete

    postings, including the headers (and of course the bodies too), are

    already available here by nntp - ready for being harvested.

     

    Tilmann

     

  • James Morrison wrote:

     

     

    I have taken care to make sure that email addresses aren't available

    if you aren't logged in.  If there is a place I missed please do let

    me know.

     

    any mail address in the body is even converted to a mailto: link!

     

    Since many people start replies with "name, mail address wrote", you

    find many mail links on eaglecentral.ca.

     

    Obfuscating mail addresses might be a good idea.

     

    Although I agree with Tilmann that all adresses can also be harvested

    easily from the cadsoft news server, I think that it is not widely

    used by spammers. And I see that we have a lot of posters using

    valuable adresses and likely not aware of the spam problem.

     

    Many ecad users have little usenet practice, so you should protect

    them as far as possible.

     

    Oliver