BTW, locking down the community section will have an additional benefit for
some. Pictures you don't want your father to see will not be indexed by google.
:)

If, on the other hand you want them indexed by google, I'll set up a special
link for them.


> I just had someone do a DoS attack on HoF because they were trying to scan the
> community section of the site and grab email addresses. The good news is that
> they failed. The bad news is that they tried a few thousand times and slowed
the
> machine down quite a bit.
> For this reason, I'm going to make the community section (where the community
> members post their pics and such) accessible only to those who are both signed
> up to the site and logged in. In addition, I'm going to automatically 'hide'
> everyone's email address in that section along the lines of this article:
> http://www.fusionauthority.com/alert/index.cfm?alertid=121#tags5
> These are quick and easy fixes to the problem. A more complete fix will be
> investigated and put into effect in time.
>
> Michael Dinowitz
> Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet
>
> 
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