Attachment Feature

Travis Dane · 03-10-2003, 12:07 AM

I noticed the Attachment Feature of the board is still disabled,
Is it with a reason that it is? Too much bandwidth hogging?

sde · 03-12-2003, 06:01 AM

we can probably enable attachments .. i just took a quick look at the control panel and can't figure out why they are not enabled. don't have time right now, but myself or rev can look into this later.

revolution · 03-12-2003, 12:45 PM

there were two reasons kinda related to each other why the attachments were disabled. The first was a sort of security concern, with a forum like this there are many diffrent types of attchments that can or need to be put up, which leads to the second issue that was trying to decide which type's should be allowed. As for now, ill enable them and we can go from there

Travis Dane · 03-21-2003, 07:05 AM

Okay this is nice, The Attachment Feature is enabled in all
Forum's but the one I needed it for, Salines Brain Teasers.

revolution · 03-21-2003, 12:37 PM

okie fixed

revolution · 03-21-2003, 02:52 PM

In reference to the attachments, vbulletin only comes with a few types of attachments listed allowed. Such as txt, png, jpg... meaning that we have to add types of attachments. In a site such as ours, there are probably tons of diffrent types that could be added, but I personally dont know all the types that users would like or need. What im going to do is have members post in this thread a list of attachments they would like to see and we'll go over and decide.

Travis Dane · 03-22-2003, 05:10 AM

Well, Since attachting .EXE files is quite a danger, I would
suggest allowing attachment of compression formats like .ZIP,
.RAR and .ACE, This besides allowing you to retrieve an .EXE
without direct contact and run a virus scanner over it, Can also
help bypassing the size limitation of attachments.

alpha · 03-25-2003, 04:27 PM

also, the typical source file types, i.e. .cpp, .c, .h, .hpp, etc.