Subj : News Alert
To   : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Wed Jun 07 2017 13:29:00

-=> Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-06-17 21:46 <=-

 DM>   Re: News Alert
 DM>   By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Tue Jun 06 2017 03:44 pm

 >  DM> Something in your name.can is matching the string "Ib Joe", so
 >  DM> perhaps just posting the contents of your name.can will help us to
 >  DM> identify the problem.
 >
 > Here ya go...
 >
 > ; Enter disallowed user names (aliases) in this file
 > ; Wildcard characters (*, ~, ^) are allowed
 > ; Rejection message file: text/badname.msg
 > new
 > Enable
 > !!huawei

 DM>    ^ There's your problem.

 DM> A '!' as the first char on the line negates the matching logic. So your
 DM> name.can says that any name is *not* "!hauwei" is trash.

Ahhh.... ok...

 DM> You could do huawei~ instead. Then any name containing "huawei" will be
 DM> considered trash/bad.

Done....

 DM> BBS aliases already have to begin with an alphabetic character, so any
 DM> alias starting with a symbol or number would not be allowed (e.g. when
 DM> creating a new user account).

name.can edited and board tested... just like the doctor ordered..

Thanks again DM...


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