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Subject: Re: blocked from arena website?!

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 07:22:58 12/08/04

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On December 08, 2004 at 03:49:04, Tony Nichols wrote:

>For some reason nuke sentinel is blocking me from the arena website. I don't
>understand why. The user information it gives doesnt even match my computer,
>also I'm a registered user of arena. Any help?
>Regards
>Tony

How about finally being granted an account only to have it disabled after I log
in the first time. Then it is enabled again, but blocked by the sentinel.

As I just goto the site now, I can see the site, but once again I can not use my
username and password.

The admins there used PHP Nuke as their frontend. Any _experienced_ webmaster
knows that it is by far the most hacked web portal system known to mankind. In
fact when FireFox first came out the sentinel used to block people based on the
referral header from the browser! Imagine that.. getting blocked from a site for
the browser you use. There are sites dedicated to purely hacking that system.
That is why I stopped using it, and went with e107, or xooms. There are plenty
others that are much better.

The sentinel system in the portal is flawed, as some have already pointed out.
Add to it he fact Christopher likes to play God and Frank's unfortunate attitude
change I fear only spells disaster in the future for Arena.

I am already hosting files that the Arena site used to, and other's have emailed
me about doing the same. When there are no longer contributors, possibly then
they might get the idea that it was their abrasive attitudes that killed the
developement and not the userbase.

Then again I could be wrong, and hell could freeze over tomorrow.

Peter



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