History of my sig link:
1. I replaced my old sig link. The new one (last week) had a direct link to my email address, using the forum's 'email this person' facility.
2. It turned out that the forum software has some kind of glitch that allows some usergroups to email me but prevents others from doing so. This made my brane hert.
3. I replaced the sig link email link with another. This one is a direct link to my ECF email address, using munged code so that it is very difficult to harvest by spambots (the code is obfuscated in a simple way by using the code IDs for each character).
4. It then became clear that the forum software only uses the new sig link in posts made after the change. Usually there is an option to 'apply this change to all posts OR just to new posts' and you select ALL. However I don't have that option live on my userID/profile. (Others may have that option but I don't; another usergroup issue
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5. So now we are here:
- My new posts have the new sig link, with an email link usable by all, that pops up your own email app when clicked, with my address ready to send a message.
- My posts from last week have the old, mostly-blocked email.
- When January 2014 comes around, and the site techies are back at the coalface, we will see if (a) the option to apply sig changes to previous posts can be made available to me; (b) to all members if not already available; and (c) if my latest sig can be applied to all old posts.
There is nothing simple, ever, about anything to do with ECF...
