Say, does anybody else find this change? Cursor over the email clicky no longer reveals the email address; clicking to email, my Outlook Express no longer applies to the process. Instead, I just get a page with a space for the subject line and a space on which to write text, and a “send” clicky.
As a mod, I sometimes have to judge spammers by the nature of their email addresses, so this is something of an inconvenience.
I wonder what else is up.
My guess, it is a privacy matter for the recipient.
It’s a totally new thing, then. 'Twas never thus, before.
After yesterdays shut down, I am thinking so.
I have a Mac (which I’m assuming means that I’m fine), but of course, me being ME, I’m feeling paranoia coming on (yikes! where is my tin foil hat??). Is there a way I can do a search to find out if it’s in my system?
At this point, I’m convinced that some kind of trojan was picked up by some of us yesterday via the board. But, unfortunately, there’s just no way of knowing, at least yet, where it came from. My understanding is that jpg files can now transmit trojans…and I kind of like the idea that it might have been a banner ad.
Weird stuff.
My Macafee virus scan gave me a trojan alert yesterday just after I opened C&F. It neutralized and destroyed the intruder and went on to check my entire hard drive. I am glad that Dale and the other moderators stay on top of things. It’s good to know that C&F is safe
Mike
Have been using Firefox exclusively for about three years now - didn’t get so much as a peep on this thing, and the boards all loaded fine yesterday. Makes me glad I’d made the switch.
The switch to disable display of email addresses is not only right below the switch to enable or disable the board, but is also labeled “enable” and “disable” while the board-disable switch is labeled “yes” and “no” – AND setting the former to “enable” disables direct email. So my guess is that in all of the enabling and disabling of the board, either Dale or I hit the wrong switch once.
It should be back to normal (displaying email addresses) now.
-Rich
Yay for Firefox! Yay for Ubuntu Linux!
I feel sorry for you poor suckers stuck with internet exploder and windblows. 
'tis…thanks!
I use Netscape 8.1 and had no virus messages, but I did get several times a message site was not available. I’m not sure what would be different from Firefox.
djm
I’m sure I hit that email disable thing. It’s like when I deal with the bank, anything there’s a problem, it always ends up being my fault. It’s, you know, human error.
I use IE and my virus thing told me it kept an attacker out sometime Friday I guess, although I couldn’t link it to a specific website when it happened. Everything seemed to work like it was supposed to, I don’t have anything on my computer that shouldn’t be there, I just kept doing what I was doing–I didn’t have to stop using my computer or anything, so I’m not sure having some other browser would have made any difference to me. This is probably about the third time in ten years that I’ve gotten an alert, I’ve never actually had something get on my computer, and I mess around on the Internet a lot. Doesn’t every browser need to have protection from attackers? Anyway, it was good to close down the forums to investigate the problem although I was suffering definite withdrawal symptoms!
Ouch. 
good to know that one of us cyber entities is actually human!