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|    Rob Swindell to Alan Ianson    |
|    Time limits    |
|    07 May 20 11:00:06    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 5951.linux_bb@1:103/705 231999e5       REPLY: 1:153/757 5eb43ae8       PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Win32 May 7 2020 MSC 1925       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.172 May 4 2020 GCC 6.3.0       COLS: 80       CHRS: CP437 2       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.104        Re: Time limits        By: Alan Ianson to Oli on Thu May 07 2020 09:35 am               > I doubt if SBBS sysops care about a guest users e-mail, just enter        > none@today.com or something and see what it looks like and give the sysop        > feedback. What a BBS does or doesn't do for a remote user is important and        > as a sysop I would want to know about things like user experience.              The reason that a Synchronet BBS "guest" login asks for the user's email       address is so that if/when the guest sends an email (e.g. feedback to the       sysop), the reply-to address will point to the Guest's actual email address.       Otherwise, there would be no method to reply to the guest's comments or       questions.              And of course, all of this is completely configurable and disable-able.       Another option would be to just disallow guest users to send any email       messages at all.               digital man              Synchronet "Real Fact" #6:       Synchronet version 3 for Linux and FreeBSD development began in 2001.       Norco, CA WX: 87.5øF, 24.0% humidity, 3 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs       --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 601 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 275 426       SEEN-BY: 229/452 616 664 981 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 292/854       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 103/705 280/464 229/101 426           |
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