Jack Smith wrote in a message to Larry Evans:
 JS> On Sep 03, 1997, Larry Evans wrote:
 JS> Here's what mine looks like:
 JS> MsgArea NETM
 JS>   ACS       Demoted
 JS>   Desc      FidoNet Matrix NETMail
 JS>   Path      D:\Netmail\
 JS>   Override  MESSAGE Msg_Change Limited/E C
 JS>   Override  MESSAGE Msg_Enter Limited/E E
 JS>   Override  MESSAGE Msg_Reply Limited/E R
 JS>   Override  MESSAGE Msg_Upload Limited/E U
 JS>   Style     *.MSG Net Pvt
 JS> End MsgArea
 LE> Jack, just wondered what all the overrides were doing for
 LE> you? I'm always looking to learn new tricks, before I get
 LE> too old to. 
 JS> Actually it's pretty simple, Larry.  When I first set up Max, I
 JS> wanted any newbie (a first-timer) to be able to read any public
 JS> area on the board but not to have posting ability in any form. 
 JS> So... unless a caller is at least "Limited", and has the "E" key,
 JS> no posting of messages is possible.  Ummm... I'm not sure why I
 JS> have the "Msg_Change" in there; if you can't post one, how could
 JS> you change it? 
Hmmm...some good ideas there. Normally I don't let them have any access to my 
Fido message areas until I get a validate on them, but thats still not a bad 
idea.
Adios for now,
Lightnin' Lar (larry@fidogate.com)
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