From: "Glenn Meadows" 

WB does require a valid registered user to post/access the NG side as well.

It confirms registrations by sending an email to the new user who signs up
with their password in the email, and the user has to log in via the web
within 24 hours of the email being sent to activate/validate the account.
If not, then the registration is purged.  Until the user validates, no mail
is accepted from that email address.

Haven't had a spammer hit the boards yet, and they've been going since 1999.

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Glenn M.
"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:453676e0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Does it also do an email based access?
>
> WB allows for all 3 access methods to the same database.
>
> Web, Email, and Newsgroup.
>
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>
> Glenn M.
> "Mike N."  wrote in message
> news:spq5j21vgoekajqgu0c9qj6ojekr5eklgl{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:46:15 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>
>>>Meanwhile, Glenn was installing a new webboard server which once he gets
>>>it
>>>up and running the current version of webboard may allow a webview to
>>>these
>>>groups. Ellen was looking for that sort of access a while back and since
>>>the
>>>webboard folks rewrote the nntp side it may be possible now.
>>
>>  This'll be interesting to  see.  I installed FUDForum in my Linux
>> research - I should enable it on an odd port and see what people think of
>> it.  I hate web forums in general, but it does allow a web-based view
>> into
>> the news-based site.   It syncs up in both directions, but I think I
>> disabled auto-sync to the newsgroup without an admin on the thinking that
>> there is no way to prevent web-based spam.   No point in mucking up these
>> newsgroups now that Google Money boy hasn't been back in a while.
>
>

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