Hallo Jack
 JF"> In a message to Glenn Christensen you wrote:
  GC>> downgraded a a name to TRANSIENT in order to make some 
 GC>> local log-ons. After
 GC>> entering the password the line, "NOT A VALID FILE AREA," (or the 
 GC>> So, it would appear, one cannot assign an access level below
 GC>> what one gives to first time callers.
 JF">     What's happening is, I'm sure, you're message areas all have an ACS 
 JF"> level of Limited or Sysop, right?  Therefore, anything 
The lowest I have is Transient
 JF"> lower than _that_ will not be able to access the 
 JF"> message areas...any of them.  The same thing goes for 
 JF"> file areas, too.  But when Max reads the LASTREAD 
 JF"> pointer, it picks up on the message area the user was 
 JF"> last in (area 1, comments to the sysop, if never 
I have the message area for the Sysop area 0
 JF"> changed or browsed) first, then checks the last file 
 JF"> area accessed.  It stumbles at the message area 
 JF"> because of the ACS level and never gets to the file 
 JF"> area LASTREAD pointer.
I give users that area, who give a wrong name etc the transient key
all they then can do is log off and leave a message.
Cheers Harry
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