Author: Tony Nichols
Date: 18:25:58 12/08/04
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On December 08, 2004 at 10:22:58, Peter Skinner wrote: >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 My bets on hell staying hot! I really enjoy this forum and don't want my name being associated with hacking. I could care less about Arena or Frank or Chris as I have chessbase products too. Thanks for sharing the information on sentinel. Regards Tony
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