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#174437 29-Oct-2008 19:15

Aaroona: I am able to move on from this, as there was no harm done to myself.

+1 and for those who is finding it difficult I have a second near new bridge you can borrow first one went out here

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#174439 29-Oct-2008 19:18

zocster:
Aaroona: I am able to move on from this, as there was no harm done to myself.

+1 and for those who is finding it difficult I have a second near new bridge you can borrow first one went out here

Haha, good on ya' mate

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#174458 29-Oct-2008 20:55

I'm also in that mailing list..

When i saw it, i naturally raised an eyebrow thinking.. what the..?

The content of the actual email itself became totally relevant as i thought to myself..how??

Well.. it's done. so no use losing any sleep over it..

im sure they've learnt a valuable lesson today when it comes to sending out corrospondence.

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#174547 30-Oct-2008 08:32

Meh, im pretty much over though didnt get a phone call even though I emailed a complaint.

Thought this was funny in the herald today....

For billions of years since the outset of time, every single one of your ancestors survived, every single person on your Mum and Dads side, successfully looked after and passed onto you life. What are the chances of that like?

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#174550 30-Oct-2008 08:35

Balchy: Meh, im pretty much over though didnt get a phone call even though I emailed a complaint.

Thought this was funny in the herald today....

outsourced development?

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#174569 30-Oct-2008 09:16

Damager: I'm also in that mailing list..

When i saw it, i naturally raised an eyebrow thinking.. what the..?

The content of the actual email itself became totally relevant as i thought to myself..how??

Well.. it's done. so no use losing any sleep over it..

im sure they've learnt a valuable lesson today when it comes to sending out corrospondence.

Same here. I was going to email in and complain about the public email addresses, but I figured with the number of geekzone members whose email addresses would have been in the list, that someone else would have done the legwork of complaining anyway ;)

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#174584 30-Oct-2008 10:49

Balchy: Meh, im pretty much over though didnt get a phone call even though I emailed a complaint.

Thought this was funny in the herald today....

Hahaha

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#174594 30-Oct-2008 11:49

Just out of the phone with the Black + White CEO and it looks like he will be posting something interesting later.

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#174595 30-Oct-2008 11:50

freitasm: Just out of the phone with the Black + White CEO and it looks like he will be posting something interesting later.

Just got out of the phone? how did you both fit in there in the first place!?

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#174623 30-Oct-2008 14:37

As Mauricio has said, I have just been on the phone to check he is cool with us soliciting the assistance of “Geekzoners” who clearly have an eye for detail.

By way of reward we are giving away a Palm Centro with no strings attached. www.bw.co.nz/phone/detail/24

See The Great B+W Error Check forum for details http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=96&TopicId=27550.

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#174682 30-Oct-2008 17:27

Dissapointed again Black and White. First my email is sent to every one and now when I sign up to your blog/forum my password is sent emailed plain text. Even though you say: "Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database
and we cannot retrieve it for you."Not good enough, you have to work on privacy there.

Sorry to rant but thought this should be brought to attention..

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#174687 30-Oct-2008 17:43

It should be pointed out here that their blog/forum software is good ol' bog standard PHPBB3. The line "Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database and we cannot retrieve it for you." and the fact that the password and username were sent in plain text, are both standard features of PHPBB3.

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#174689 30-Oct-2008 17:46

It doesn't matter if it is a default version or not. I signed up thinking that my privacy would be protected and it wasn't. I should either get a warning saying that my password would be sent over an unsecured connection, not send my password, or have a link to show me my password on an encrypted page.

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#174690 30-Oct-2008 17:52

anthonybs: Dissapointed again Black and White. First my email is sent to every one and now when I sign up to your blog/forum my password is sent emailed plain text. Even though you say: "Please do not forget your password as it has been encrypted in our database
and we cannot retrieve it for you."Not good enough, you have to work on privacy there.

Sorry to rant but thought this should be brought to attention..

It's the password to a forum, not your credit card details. I believe this is pretty standard with most forum software.

Even if your password was not emailed to you, their forums don't use SSL, so your password could be intercepted anytime you login to the forums. I don't think this is really that much of an issue.

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#174691 30-Oct-2008 17:53

To me, that just seems very picky. I really wouldn't attribute that fault to B&W directly. I run a PHPBB3 forum (shihad.com), with the same features, and am yet to have a complaint.

Ultimately, there's a heck of a lot of forums out there in the big wide web with the same problem then.

Heaven forbid if you ever need to get a new password emailed to you, for any forum, blog, or site!

Safe to say that we agree to disagree on this problem?

(edit: my post is in relation to anthonybs's post. Nate beat me to the reply button!)

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