Re: Bbs Security (was Freenet   
     By: MIKE POWELL to RASSILON on Sun Feb 07 2010 09:26 am   
      
    > ³ Not neccessarily true.  If I feel like a SysOp is being too intrusive and   
    > ³ asking me for too much personal information I'll hang up.  And I'm a   
    > ³ goody-two-shoes.   
    > ÀÄ[R=>MP]   
    >   
    > Your loss.  Like I said, it ain't always the sysop.  Some of these BBS   
    > systems have that stuff hard-coded.  If it ain't open source, or isn't in a   
    > language you program in, you can't turn it off.   
    >   
    > For example, I changed one of the questions from asking for a street   
    > address to asking where the user heard about the BBS.  I was able to change   
    > the screen that the user is shown with that question, and the prompt   
    > itself, but the software still requires some sort of answer (and it has to   
    > be at least 2 words).   
      
   What BBS Software is this? In Synchronet, those kinds of new user questions can   
   be easily disabled in SCFG->System->New User Values->Question Toggles.   
      
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