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   Message 14,150 of 16,010   
   g00r00 to Edmund Wong   
   Re: menu groups   
   09 Dec 21 11:05:50   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 1:129/215 8006b6fe   
   REPLY: 1:153/7083 82f31c08   
   TZUTC: -0500   
    EW> For instance,  I enter the Fidonet area, and I can access the   
    EW> Fidonet message bases and file bases only.  When I select "Area change",   
    EW> it only lists Fidonet-only areas.   
      
   You can do what you want in many different ways, but the easiest would be to   
   use the message group system.  You will need to create a message group in the   
   Message Group Editor called "FidoNet".   
      
   After you have created the FidoNet group in the group editor, note the "ID"   
   number associated to the group.  For this example lets say your FidoNet group   
   is ID 1 it will look like this in the list of groups within the editor:   
      
   Message Group Name                                     ID   
   ---------------------------------------------------------   
   FidoNet                                                1   
      
   With the group created, you must now go into your Message Base Editor and set   
   up the message bases that you want to show up in that group.  Lets say you   
   have a FidoNet base called "MYSTIC", and you open it up for editing.  You will   
   see a "List ACS" in the settings.  This is what tells Mystic what the user   
   must have to see that message base.  Yours by default might look like "s20"   
   which means the user must have a security level of 20 or higher to see it.   
      
   If you add "g1" to the List ACS it will tell Mystic that the user must also be   
   in group 1 in order to see the base in the list.  So if you changed "s20" to   
   "s20g1" and save the base, it will now only show up when the user has a   
   security level of 20 AND has joined group 1 (which is your FidoNet group).   
      
   As another example here is what my MYSTIC echo looks like in my message base   
   configuration:   
      
   Name        | MYSTIC   
   Base Type   | Networked   
   Echo Tag    | MYSTIC   
   List ACS    | s10(g1|g5)   
   Read ACS    | s10(g1|g5)   
   Post ACS    | s20(g1|g5)   
   Sysop ACS   | s255(g1|g5)   
   Net Address | 1:129/215 (FidoNet)   
      
   My BBS uses a little more complex variation which allows the base to show up   
   in two groups at the same time.  My List ACS is "s10(g1|g5)" which means that   
   the user must have a security level of 10 or higher, and be in either group 1   
   (my FidoNet group) or group 5 (All Message Bases group) to see the MYSTIC base.   
      
   Now on my BBS when a user is logged in they must change to either the FidoNet   
   or All Message Bases group using the Change Group option before they will see   
   the MYSTIC echo.   
      
   Hope this helps.   
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