Subj : Re: Sysop to create new u
To   : g00r00
From : Dennis Katsonis
Date : Wed May 20 2020 08:58 pm

-=> g00r00 wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

 DK> It does, and the ability to add users in the editor solves the problem
 DK> perfectly.

 g0> Glad to hear it!  I've had that on my TODO list for a while.  Thanks
 g0> for giving me a good reason to get off my butt and do it :)

 g0> I do something a little similar to what you want to do.  I let them
 g0> apply and then all users "s10!s11" get sent to an "unauth" menu where
 g0> they only have options to change their e-mail, validate their e-mail
 g0> address (which will automatically upgrade them and let them move on),
 g0> download Mystic files, or log off.

 g0> So the only way to get access is to validate your e-mail address or
 g0> wait for me to manually upgrade you.  You're basically "in jail" until
 g0> one of those two things happens.  And if you try to validate an e-mail
 g0> and then go change it to something else, it'll instantly downgrade you
 g0> and put you right back in jail again.

 g0> I did that to stop any troll/hater accounts.  If they act up I'll have
 g0> a valid e-mail, hostname, location, and IP captured from them to work
 g0> with.


It occured to me that a BBS is a way in which people who want to communicate
privately, could do so, WITHOUT having anyone "own" the system.  Being so easy
to deploy, people could genuinely own their private platform, create their own
functions easily.  No need for managing group e-mails, using Telegram or
SnapChat, FB groups, etc, the BBS could do it all.  And it's actually much
easier than creating some private webspace.  At the moment, people often might
create a FB group, or use some other service, or a combination of technologies
but the problem with all of this is that a third party (the host) owns the
system.  It might require people to get apps, give away details, etc.  For
philosophical reasons, I believe people should own and control their platforms,
and BBS's are the easiest way for a group of people to create, and OWN, their
own little virtual world.

It could just be a group of friends, a community group, a special interest
group, an activist group, whatever.  Sure, there are other ways to do it, but
this software is so, so easy to set up, to modify, to create custom functions. 
I can't think of an easier way to get a meeting space up and started.  It is a
way to move away from communications between people being 'mediated' by some
(often abusive, like FB) third party.

Thats why I was enquiring about this functionality.  You could create a 'ready
to deploy' Rapsberry PI image, all configured to run, say Mystic, in a manner
suitable for this type of need.

.... Dennis Katsonis
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