"Email This Story" Feature Removed

[Jason Lee]

hehe Put me into the "What email this story feature" group. I never noticed it was there. I cut and past the URL if i wanna share something.

[Jason Lee]

hehe Put me into the "What email this story feature" group. I never noticed it was there. I cut and past the URL if i wanna share something.

[Gerard]

Put me down as another on the missing vote response: 'Never used it.' Not because I never noticed it. Saw the link. Just a matter of policy, I never use those things on any website. Too many abuse it, using such only email services as a ruse to harvest email addresses for spamming. I've taught my daughter the same thing, as early on in her membership with a few kid's sites she managed to get some hefty spam going, though most of it was because her friends used 'share this with a friend!' links to send her things.

[Jason Lee]

Originally Posted by Gerard

Put me down as another on the missing vote response: 'Never used it.' Not because I never noticed it. Saw the link. Just a matter of policy, I never use those things on any website. Too many abuse it, using such only email services as a ruse to harvest email addresses for spamming. I've taught my daughter the same thing, as early on in her membership with a few kid's sites she managed to get some hefty spam going, though most of it was because her friends used 'share this with a friend!' links to send her things.

yep, those things are bad about that. Never use them.

[Damion Chaplin]

I used it once to send one of my own articles to a friend. Every other time since then I've just emailed them the URL (to the non-paginated version).

[Daviddjr]

We had this problem on our sever as well. I guess it's a big issue. I found this article online which discused the problem specifically.

http://www.securephpwiki.com/index.php/Email_Injection

We used the ModSecurity option to fix our server as we still need the ability to send email to users. If you decide to re-implement this or need some other feature to send emails you'll want to look into this.

Best of Luck,
David Devaney, Jr.
DDH Software, Inc.