Subj : Re: File down loads total on webv4
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 07:31 pm

-=> Nightfox wrote to Rixter <=-

 Ni>   Re: File down loads total on webv4
 Ni>   By: Rixter to echicken on Tue Sep 10 2024 12:41 pm

 Ri> Guests on my bbs are not allowed to download. Only authenticated users
 Ri> can.

 Ni> If you want people to be able to freely download files from your BBS
 Ni> via a web link without having an account on your BBS, you'd need to
 Ni> allow the guest account to download files.  Sometimes it's useful to be
 Ni> able to share files with people that way.  For instance, other BBS
 Ni> sysops might be interested in downloading BBS-related files from your
 Ni> BBS, and they might not have a user account on your BBS.

Personally I'd have to disagree with that policy.  I don't even offer a 
web interface, but web/telnet would be the same for me - as in : If you 
want a file from my BBS, create a user account and get it.  Otherwise... 
get it from somewhere else.



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