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Does anyone know do set the input field size for cck module. As by default the text input field size was set to 60, which it rather too long.

Hi there-

Is there a way Drupal can generate an email to all users when a new page or story is created? I understand that is what RSS does, but the users of my page (my baseball team) doens't have the technical know how to do much more than open email.

Also, is there a way which they could reply to the email and have it show up as a comment to that article? I believe this can be accomplished using the group module, but I'd rather not have to use groups seen as how I only have one 'group' registered at my site.

Thanks in advance.

Hi there,

I really like the concept of active select, but I can't use category module on one of my site because it lacks (at the moment I guess) advanced views integration...see http://drupal.org/node/85757

Well, anyway, I really liked the concept of active select or anything that could be an alternative to a really huge drop down in the node creation form for a vocab that has a lotof terms in it?

My site seems under attack. A computer using the same ISP I'm using (according to whois IP.Add.re.ss) is asking my site too often for an "a.gif" and a "b.gif" in various node directories. I have no "a" or "b" gif files.

I'm thinking I want to "ban" this IP address, but I'm on ADSL and see this address is very similar to an IP I've used when browsing unauthenticated.

These files have been requested over the past few days. I loaded a few paths to see what was being requested/served, and see it's a long list of nodes. So instead of a 404 when asking for example.com/node/191/a.gif Drupal returns the home page (it appears, however, it's using a .tpl file inappropriate for what it's serving).

I also see in the Administer Log there is no "error"/message with serving up many nodes as a GIF file that does not exist.

This is unfortunate for a few reasons:
1. This seems very CPU intensive and I'm on an shared server.

2. If I ban this IP, it may be one I am given after I power cycle my DSL box. Then what happens? Does Drupal serve up a page telling me I'm banned or is the request just ignored?

3. I dislike waste, and this person/computer is wasting resources.

I just tried accessing a few random nodes here at the Drupal site with "a.gif" after it and got 404s. Why is my site sending out a long list of nodes instead?

Is this a former visitor whos computer has been taken over and is trying to hack my site?

I'm wondering if there's a way to flag menu items that link to something other than a drupal node. Specifically, the client insists on linking directly to PDF and Word documents in menus, and I'd like users to be aware of the format they'll be getting with a small graphic.

I'm not sure how to assign a style based on whether a menu item contains .pdf or .doc (or some other extension) in the file name.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

I'm wondering whether it's possible to place a newly created group into the moderation queue until approved.

many thanks

Ole