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  • Re: New SBBS installs should prevent new users from echo-posting?

    From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Digital Man on Wed Jun 26 19:45:58 2024
    On Fri, 17 May 2024 16:21:59 -0700
    "Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT!Digital.Man@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    Seeing how the community feels about Wilfred's request.

    1: Yes, new users should not have network posting privileges
    2: No, a sysop should opt-in to restrictions on new users
    3: I don't know what you're talking about

    Sysop should be able to make their own choices. Personally, I have all
    my forums to get to read only until level 60. When a user emails me to authenticate their account, then I'll give them level 60 until they
    prove otherwise.

    I think that's other than my own local forums.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nelgin on Wed Jun 26 22:27:07 2024
    Re: Re: New SBBS installs should prevent new users from echo-posting?
    By: nelgin to Digital Man on Wed Jun 26 2024 07:45 pm

    On Fri, 17 May 2024 16:21:59 -0700
    "Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT!Digital.Man@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    Seeing how the community feels about Wilfred's request.

    1: Yes, new users should not have network posting privileges
    2: No, a sysop should opt-in to restrictions on new users
    3: I don't know what you're talking about

    Sysop should be able to make their own choices. Personally, I have all
    my forums to get to read only until level 60. When a user emails me to authenticate their account, then I'll give them level 60 until they
    prove otherwise.

    Setting the ARS to a certain amount of calls before the user can see it can probably do the job in regards to spammers or crazies who hop around
    bbses and post. That's a sysop call though. I don't think anything like this should be constructed into the defaults.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to nelgin on Fri Jun 28 08:11:25 2024
    Re: Re: New SBBS installs should prevent new users from echo-posting?
    By: nelgin to Digital Man on Wed Jun 26 2024 07:45 pm

    Seeing how the community feels about Wilfred's request.
    1: Yes, new users should not have network posting privileges
    2: No, a sysop should opt-in to restrictions on new users
    3: I don't know what you're talking about

    Sysop should be able to make their own choices. Personally, I have all
    my forums to get to read only until level 60. When a user emails me to authenticate their account, then I'll give them level 60 until they
    prove otherwise.

    That's exactly what I did, new users and Guest's can read but can't post until authenticated to lvl 60.
    My local forums they can post to no restrictions.

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