Subj : So Roy Witt is your hero? To : George Vandervort From : Roy Witt Date : Mon Dec 02 2002 05:30 pm 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... GV> -+- FMail/Win32 1.60 GV> + Origin: QuickPro Moderator (FidoNet 1:382/8) .... Darwin was wrong. . . An Idiot can survive. --- BOGUSMAIL V2.03 * Origin: ** Moderator - FLAME ** (1:10/22) .