DC> Larry Rink wrote in a message to Jack Smith:
 LR> Agree. I DON'T have the "U" on my file menu and I set my "U" to
 LR>  and have another letter for uploading. I have my rules
 LR> posted and it clearly says NO uploading. So if they try . If
 LR> I want a fiel from a caller I tell them the letter necessary and
 LR> change it after they upload.
(to larry) that's kinda dumb to do - all that's going to happen is you'll get 
some pissed off users. Also, having another letter doesn't solve anything, it 
causes more work for you (everytime someone uploads something you have to 
re-silt) and there's a chance they can guess the letter anyways, if they know 
it exists. And if one of these pissed-off users finds it, he could say "wow, 
60 megs free, lets' upload a 60 meg file of garbage!"
 DC> A better method would be to either have the upload 
 DC> command at Clerk or above acs level, and temporarily 
 DC> assign the user that level, or give the upload key an 
 DC> acs key and do the same thing (temporarily give the 
 DC> user that key), eg
that would do it - if you wanted to use keys it would be really simple. Just 
give them a key, then in your logon procedure, put a 
[keyoff]
and it guarantees that the key will be off next time they call.
but the easiest way, is just to allow file-attaches in your comments to sysop 
area, and have them attach it to a message. Not only are you alerted that 
they uploaded it, but you don't have to mess around with keys and people can 
upload files to you personally anytime they want. You could even (probably - 
if it accepts keys, i've never tried) set this in max.ctl:
Message Edit Ask FileAttach       Limited/!N
(or Limited/N)
or whatever.. The first one will not let anyone with key N to fileattach, the 
second will only allow people with key N to file attach..
it all depends on what you want to do i guess.
ttyl, greg
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