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Date Posted: 04:01:47 05/05/01 Sat
Author: Brandon
Subject: Password protecting forums, a handy tip, and problem-users
In reply to: Sandy 's message, "Brandon please read" on 13:11:44 05/01/01 Tue

>Brandon, I decided to delete the forum 15324 because
>this person started sending me harassing e-mails too
>along with harassing post on the forum. The Host and
>IP BAN did not work, he still got through, so you may
>have some bugs there to work out. Thanks for all your
>help, Sandy

Dear Sandy,

I just wrote a post about storing user information to someone else. With user logins (which we don't have yet), we can more-easily handle problem users.

You can set a password on your forum in the Access/Security configuration area. Just put a list of passwords in (to block users from reading or writing without the pw).

Users can request the password from you without knowing your e-mail address if you enable the "contact form" option.

* Tip: Have a password you give to new visitor only; once you see them posting okay, you can give them a more-permanent password. This way, if you unknowingly give a problem-user a password, you can later remove that password from your list without disturbing passwords used by "good" visitors.

I hope that made sense. :)

Sincerely,
Brandon
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