Subj : Time limits
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Thu May 07 2020 11:00 am

  Re: Time limits
  By: Alan Ianson to Oli on Thu May 07 2020 09:35 am

 > I doubt if SBBS sysops care about a guest users e-mail, just enter
 > none@today.com or something and see what it looks like and give the sysop
 > feedback. What a BBS does or doesn't do for a remote user is important and
 > as a sysop I would want to know about things like user experience.

The reason that a Synchronet BBS "guest" login asks for the user's email 
address is so that if/when the guest sends an email (e.g. feedback to the 
sysop), the reply-to address will point to the Guest's actual email address. 
Otherwise, there would be no method to reply to the guest's comments or 
questions.

And of course, all of this is completely configurable and disable-able. Another 
option would be to just disallow guest users to send any email messages at all.

                                            digital man

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