01 Dec 02 17:44, George Vandervort wrote to Ross Cassell:

 GV> Hmmm..
 GV> I ran a public Access BBS for over 18 years,
 GV> and one of the configuration options that I imposed,
 GV> was that all validated new users, were given "Read" privilages,
 GV> and ONLY got "Write Privilages" to local message area,
 GV> and required Sysop intervention, before given "WRITE" privilages to
 GV> any Fidonet Echo topic that left my system, with my originline..

 GV> that solved a lot of potencial problems with
 GV>  characters logging on and gaining instant
 GV> write privilages under any name..

That wouldn't matter one iota if the brain dead sysop OKed a user
unwittingly...you'd get the same treatment if you were such an asshole as
Cassell.


 GV> -+--------------

 GV> Regards,
 GV> George Vandervort - QuickPro & Fence_Post Moderator

 GV> ... the Beatles said it best, Obla-Dee, Obla-Daa, Life Goes On...
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