🚀 go-pugleaf

1. Threading is easy.  Take some time and get to know it.  It shouldn't take
too long.  Is 'next' really that hard to understand???  Is 'original' (message)
that difficult to comprehend???  fnord is correct, the threading is very
powerful, and one of the many reasons I like SearchLight BBS.

2. No, not quite.  The user passwords were hidden for a reason - a good one.
Imagine if all passwords were in plain text.  Crackers ("Hackers" by some
people...) would have the time of their life!  It would make their 'job'
a whole HECK of alot easier!  They don't need to go trying to decipher encrypted
passwords anymore, they just grab 'em and use 'em!  Imagine if the SysOp
password were in plain text.  If anyone happened to find a hole in the system
(most likely a door/external program) and got hold of that file - that could
mean the end of your system, and everyones private email, or any other private
things!  Rethink on that one.  It's not the sysop that is to be distrusted,
it's the renegade user who's trying to attack your system!

3. Well, gee, that's funny, because the ==majority== of SL sysops that *I*
know LOVE SearchLight, myself included!  Try PCBoard on for size, or some
other 'Top BBS'.  You think SL is confusing!

-- Dan "Steele" Peck