you just posted your new users's password.
I decided not to have a New User Password. If they don't leave New
you misunderstood.
No, unless it has been changed, the Telnet BBS Guide basically says
that "If you require a New User Password BESIDES the choice to 'Apply
For Access', you can NOT be listed in the Telnet BBS Guide"; that is put
out monthly for telnet, quarterly for dial-up.
When I ran GT Power under dial-up, it DID require a System Password
for New Users to enter BEFORE they could continue the New User Logon
process. This ensured that they didn't "skip over" things like the BBS Disclaimer and other things that users had to agree to before they could
be considered for access...to be sure they did in fact, read those
screens.
Others may disagree with me, but I feel that in this day and age, if
you let a total, unknown stranger into your residence...online or otherwise...you have a Death Wish. What users do OUTSIDE THE BBS is
THEIR BUSINESS...but they are A GUEST IN MY HOME AT LOGON...and they are EXPECTED to act in a manner where they'd be welcomed back. I won't
hesitate to "show a twit the door", as it were. I would rather have a
LIMITED number of QUALITY users who play by the rules, than a LARGE
number of QUANTITY users who do not.
Also, on my BBS, while user data is kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL;
released ONLY for a Law Enforcement Subpeona, or for BBS Rules
Violations (Confirmed Visiting Sysops are notified, so that they can
protect their systems)...if a user will NOT leave New User Feedback,
telling where they heard about the BBS, and what they're looking for in
it, then go through the Telnet Email Verifier within 48 hours after
initial logon, their account is DELETED WITHOUT COMMENT.
The same applies if they omit or obviously falsify their new user data
(i.e. failing to provide a real full name along with their alias). While
some message networks and InterBBS Doorgame Leagues allow aliases, some
do NOT...because the user of REAL NAMES provides ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY for ones actions.
In short, if users don't want to play by the simple rules I've laid
down, then I neither want them, or need them, on my BBS.
Daryl
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