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Dmitry, the DBA who put us on a solid footing many years ago, grew up near that area.

I mean - why reinvent the wheel?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

In every post he makes on CP he includes an e-mail address of someone he claims is a troll on Craig's List. And, he does this elsewhere on the net ... edit ... link removed at request of Wizardzz for good reasons ...

I consider that an inappropriate use of CodeProject. If there is a real person, with a real e-mail address, that he's broadcasting here: consider they might possibly take legal action. And if not a real e-mail address, then he's contributing to the search engine's indexing of CP pages using that unreal address.

This is a case where having a dialog to give a reason for the report would be very useful.

best, Bill

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis

I removed it. It is a real e-mail address. Also, I have not posted the address elsewhere, that search returns results from sites that copy CP's content.

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

Maybe next time you could send wizardzz a private e-mail with your concerns and try to solve the problem that way first rather than calling wizardzz out on this publicly right off the bat.

--Just a thought.

--
** Jack of all trades and master of none.

Aw Shucks, I don't mind the attention. If I'm not stirring the pot, I'm doing something wrong.

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

Sorry to hijack this thread, but this is a perfect example of why it would be useful to not send a member's email address in private messages. I do not private message other members because it sends my email address. And why would I want to risk showing my email address to somebody to ask them to stop abusing somebody else's email address?

Help a brotha out and vote Managing Your JavaScript Library in ASP.NET as the best ASP.NET article of May 2011.

AspDotNetDev wrote:
Sorry to hijack this thread

No you're not. Wink | ;)

Seriously, I agree with you. However, Chris has not implemented an internal private messaging system yet which I think would be a great asset to this site. Many other sites have them and I think they are awesome. Your message center would be under your settings panel for instance.

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** Jack of all trades and master of none.

Slacker007 wrote:
Maybe next time you could send wizardzz a private e-mail with your concerns and try to solve the problem that way first rather than calling wizardzz out on this publicly right off the bat.

Hi Slacker007,

First, I was loathe to do this, but I reported this because I care about CP and the people on it, and I felt what I reported was "over the line." I would have sent Chris M. a private message about this, but he has not, for some time, responded to private messages from me (which I don't take personally: I imagine he has about a thousand e-mails per day). I don't know any other CP staff except Chris.

Second, I had reported Wizardzz before for the same reason, but because there is no facility to add a reason for reporting someone at the time you make a report (something I have been advocating here) ... and CodeProject staff did not respond to ask me why I reported ... I felt the only alternative was I should take reponsibility and make the report public.

By saying that, I do not mean to imply that I think CodeProject staff should contact people who report other people if they can't see an obvious reason for the report. That, I think, could lead to a lot of back-and-forth static and wasted time.

Third, as another poster comments here, sending a private e-mail would have exposed my e-mail address.

In this case, Wizardzz is obviously a reasonable person, mature enough to interpret a comment on a behavior as not an attack on his character, but someone else might. And, perhaps you, like me, have had your domain-name hijacked by spammers, your privacy violated by naive friends who gave your e-mail address to FaceBook, or been stalked by someone on-line ... which has left you a bit shy about stepping foward publicly.

This has brought me no pleasure except for appreciation for Wizardzz's way of responding.

thanks, Bill

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis

BillWoodruff wrote:
but he has not, for some time, responded to private messages from me

My apologies, Bill, if I've been slack in replying personally. As soon as I saw your message I emailed wizardzz and he was extremely polite and fixed the situation immediately. I dived back into my pile of email (a thousand a day isn't far off!) and unfortunately didn't reply back to because I saw that wizardzz had already made a post regarding the situation.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

BillWoodruff wrote:
sending a private e-mail would have exposed my e-mail address.

I see that now. Thanks for the explanation even though you were not obligated to give one. Smile | :)

Hey Bill, could you possibly remove the link in your post? It contains the original e-mail address so it would be in good taste to just remove it from your post, too.

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

Hi Wizardzz,

Point well taken: link removed.

best, Bill

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis

If you pin a message, click another message so that it becomes expanded too, then unpin the pinned message, both messages will collapse. This doesn't make sense to me. The other message should not collapse.

[Managing Your JavaScript Library in ASP.NET]

All forums affected. Tried multiple times.

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** Jack of all trades and master of none.

WEB23 works fine for me. No problems.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)

Smithers-Jones wrote:
No problems.

go figure. Smile | :)

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** Jack of all trades and master of none.

I had some final database stuff to do this morning so it affected perf for about 15 mins. Sorry 'bout that.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

If you miss when you select a survey option, and press "Submit your answers" with no boxes checked, you get a message:

You have not answered "

The double quote is superfluous.

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

I can't even find a survey to answer. Unsure | :~

Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.

or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H

OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

they are plenty on the CP home page. D'Oh! | :doh:

Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

The quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get.
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they improve readability.
CP Vanity has been updated to V2.4

There are these:

Best C# article of May 2011
Best C++/MFC article of May 2011
Best VB.NET article of May 2011
Best overall article of May 2011
Best ASP.NET article of May 2011

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

The Daily News email is getting hung up in our mail server due to SPF failure. The following is the error message from the server:

Received-SPF: unknown (error in processing during lookup of domain of maillist.codeproject.com: Unknown mechanism found)
client-ip=65.39.148.44

Cheers,
Brett

Thanks Brett - I'll get Vince on it as soon as he's in this morning.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

This issue has popped up again with the Daily News of Thursday August 14 2011:

Received-SPF: unknown (error in processing during lookup of domain of maillist.codeproject.com: Unknown mechanism found)
client-ip=65.39.148.44

Thanks Brett. We'll dig in, again, to see what the issue is.

[Edit: we've made a change whereby we're ditching our "reply to" address and just using a "from" address. This means it will be far less convenient for those who ignore our "do not reply, this is an unattended email box" message, but it will help those mail servers who ignore the "from" address and use the "reply to" address if it's present.

Vince did an SPF check against your servers and it all passed. Maybe this will help...]

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

14	Letting Article Owners Pin Posts in their Discussion Forums?
7	Not to cut threads in half in a page
5	User control over what is considered "new"
4	The moderation queue and hidden links
4	Article moderation suggestion
4	Brush up

1	Spam filter on member profiles
1	Moderation, spam & etc
0	some link in article are broken
0	New "consent" popup
0	Inappropriate ads?
0	Several bugs with github article submission import wizard.

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