Subj : bots // Adobe After Effec
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 11:08:39

  Re: bots // Adobe After Effec
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sun Jul 10 2022 02:48 pm

 > > Yup, that's already the default for ecWeb per
 > > http://wiki.synchro.net/config:w
 > > v4
 >
 > > ; Allow new users to register via the web interface (default: no)
 > > user_registration = false
 >
 > If you don't allow web registrations, is there a screen that will give the
 > user instructions on how to register so they can access the web interface?

So long as the BBS has a "guest" account, ecWeb still allows access to the web interface without authenticating. Guest's normally cannot post messages, so while they can still browse/read without authenticating, they cannot post messages (e.g. SPAM).

 > Back when a certain fidonet board went down, there were a bunch of users
 > looking for a new place to read the COOKING echo.  I was really surprised
 > that several of them only knew "how to BBS" via a web interface.  Getting
 > legit users like that to register via another means without instruction
 > would be difficult.

ecWeb is very extensible, so the sysop can add additional instruction text or pages, as they see fit, very easily.
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