Subj : Session Time Outs...
To   : Time Warrior
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jun 07 2005 10:29 pm

  Re: Session Time Outs...
  By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Tue Jun 07 2005 09:34 pm

 >  >  >  > Are you talking about the inactivity warning/time-out? Give your us
 >  >  >  > exemption if you want to disable it for them.
 > 
 >  >  > Not disable. Set the mins PER access level. It's a feature request.
 > 
 >  > Yeah. I don't understand *why* you would want to different inactivity
 >  > warning/time-out per security level. Heck, the fact that it's configurabl
 >  > all I think makes it pretty flexible! <shrug>
 > 
 > Most BBS Softwares (that i've noticed anyways) have the opinion of
 > configuring it. However, as for why would per asc be a good idea? Both a goo
 > and very fair question! :-)
 > 
 > Lets say your a Sysop and you are in a message scan but are also bouncing to
 > and from the PC. Well, it's your BBS, why get timed out? At the same time --
 > you might not want Joe-average-user to be able to park indefinately. So you
 > set LEVEL 99 to unlimited and LEVEL 50 to "XX" mins.

Uh... no, just give the sysop the 'H' exemption (like I said before).

 > Now lets say you're trying to do things like encourage message posting,
 > etc... one of the bennefits of complying and thus getting your access raised
 > is more time leniancy on the session time out. If they just ran to the
 > bathroom for 10 mins and were in the middle of a message scan, obviously the
 > are doing something productive on the BBS (not leeching files or just loggin
 > on, parking and forgetting about it) so you'd want your more deserving users
 > to be allowed more leway with that.

The editors typically have their own, separately configurable, inactivity
timers.

                                                  digital man

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