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    From WitNik@witnik@BGGRSCYN.remove-1ku-this to Digital Man on Sat Oct 24 11:44:37 2020
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    To: Digital Man
    DM,

    On my BBS, I have SBBS require that feedback is sent to the sysop during the new user creation process. Everything works great with all of my custom displays, but if I enable forwarding on my sysop account it displays my email (netmail) address to users during the new user feedback process.

    I'm familiar with the cool methods for managing customizations to user.dat, but I was wondering what the best way to accomplish not presenting the forwarding netmail address might be. I don't want to modify prompts to solve my issue that are needed in other parts of the system. I don't know if that would be the case.

    I've also thought about using an email alias for the sysop account's netmail to improve privacy, so that I don't have to change any prompts.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance,
    -WitNik

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  • From Digital Man@digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-mia-this to WitNik on Sat Oct 24 13:44:23 2020
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    To: WitNik
    Re: Mail Forwarding / Feedback Required Workflow
    By: WitNik to Digital Man on Sat Oct 24 2020 11:44 am

    DM,

    On my BBS, I have SBBS require that feedback is sent to the sysop during the new user creation process. Everything works great with all of my custom displays, but if I enable forwarding on my sysop account it displays my email (netmail) address to users during the new user feedback process.

    I'm familiar with the cool methods for managing customizations to user.dat, but I was wondering what the best way to accomplish not presenting the forwarding netmail address might be. I don't want to modify prompts to solve my issue that are needed in other parts of the system. I don't know if that would be the case.

    I've also thought about using an email alias for the sysop account's netmail to improve privacy, so that I don't have to change any prompts.

    Any suggestions?

    I think just setting the UserNetMail string in your ctrl/text.dat to a blank string would do it. The only other place that string is displayed in the user editor, and I don't think that would mess you up.
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  • From WitNik@witnik@BGGRSCYN.remove-ruf-this to Digital Man on Sat Oct 24 20:36:53 2020
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    To: Digital Man
    Re: Mail Forwarding / Feedback Required Workflow
    By: Digital Man to WitNik on Sat Oct 24 2020 01:44 pm

    I think just setting the UserNetMail string in your ctrl/text.dat to a blank string would do it. The only other place that string is displayed in the user editor, and I don't think that would mess you up.

    DM,

    Thank you for the assist!

    -WitNik

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