Subj : assessing echo life
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Apr 27 2019 11:30 am


 On 2019 Apr 27 17:58:58, you wrote to me:

 >> that's interesting... i would not expect that to stick... especially
 >> for the guest account... anyone visiting as a guest can flip it...

 AA> That is even  more interesting!  After our little chat I thought *you* as
 AA> sysop had changed the default order,

no... AFAIK, there's no such global setting in the BBS package...

 AA> but it turns out it seems to remember the last setting by the last
 AA> known Guest visitor?  ...that is, *any* visitor?

AFAIK, yes... any guest visitor... those that have accounts and are logged in 
should be using their own settings...

 AA> Maybe that explains why when I swore that I saw the list oldest to
 AA> newest, it had flipped from newest to oldest the next time I dropped
 AA> by?

yup... i'll bring this up with the developer, though... i'm thinking that the 
guest account should always start with the same settings and reset or drop 
changes when the guest account is not being used any longer... i can only 
imagine the possible confusion with one or more guests on the terminal server 
as well as the web server, all at the same time... but it may not be a big 
deal, anyway... one simply needs to learn the interface and how to use it ;)  
kinda like getting a new smartphone and having to figure out how to do 
everything because there's no manual with them any more :)

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
wrong...
.... Nothing's so weird that no one's done it.
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