DOS ain't dead

Concerning latest junk mails sent out to forum members I had to face the truth: This forum software was outdated.

I was still running version 1.5.x from 2006. I did this intentionally, because I made several in-depth changes to the scripts/database layout, which made updating very hard. One change added a math CAPTCHA for guest postings. This is no longer required as I had to disable anonymous users already in November 2007. But today we need a CAPTCHA for the contact form. This feature, along many others, has been integrated in version 1.7.0 of "my little forum" (mlf).

With respect to security I decided to update to the latest version today. This site is now running vanilla mlf 1.7.6. It still contains all settings, posts, and images from the previous version, but all features added by me are "lost" for now.

So if you run into troubles, please drop a note here and I'll see, what I can do for you.

Note to people linking to a particular category: You have to turn, e.g., "...category=DOSX" to "category=8".

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Well done. More security is always good. Having the page view controls in a single cluster is nice too.

> With respect to security I decided to update to the latest version today.
> This site is now running vanilla mlf 1.7.6. It still contains all
> settings, posts, and images from the previous version, but all features
> added by me are "lost" for now.

I've already re-enabled:
1) added {d} tag for "strikethrough"
2) improved BBCode decoding for e-mail notifications
3) improved {code} tag parsing

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Forum admin

> Well done. More security is always good. Having the page view controls in a
> single cluster is nice too.

Right after upgrading I got another nasty spam mail from an IP belonging to the Vodafone network in Hesse (Germany). I configured some bad words now.

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Forum admin

> I've already re-enabled:
> 1) added {d} tag for "strikethrough"
> 2) improved BBCode decoding for e-mail notifications
> 3) improved {code} tag parsing

4) added missing images "board_mo.gif", "mix_mo.gif", "thread_mo.gif"

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Forum admin

> Note to people linking to a particular category: You have to turn,
> e.g., "...category=DOSX" to "category=8".

This one is for you.

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Forum admin

> So if you run into troubles, please drop a note here and

Admins are no longer red

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> > So if you run into troubles, please drop a note here and
>
> Admins are no longer red

That's no bug in the new version. I just turned this feature off to prevent "red pollution".

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Forum admin