Short: AUTO Validation CallBack Door - for MEBBSNet Bulletin Board Software Author: Al Saveriano - Fido 1:2606/205 Alche-miga BBS 201-398-6360 Uploader: Ed Kolar Type: comm/mebbs Architecture: m68k-amigaos If you have never used a CallBack feature on a bulletin board system you probably don't know what this thing is designed to do. Basically, it check to see if a new user is actually located at the phone number he says he is. If he is, you, the Sysop, have a definitive method to trace a user back to a real location. As we all know, verification of a user is a difficult and time consuming operation. Once the system verifies the new users phone number, it upgrades his system acccess to that of a 'regular' user. The level of upgrade is set by you. It also allows you to see if a user is attempting to open up a multiple account on your system. This, essentially, is the basic function of a CallBack door or utility. IMPORTANT: Please note - if setting this door up for standard N.American phone formats, it will NOT call long distance outside of the xxx-xxx-xxxx telephone format. Therefore, it can not be used to validate European callers when it is set up for N.American dialing. (This may come later in its developement).