Well, the way I understand this the problem is that people wanted a place where they can post parts of the script - doing this in public is not really a good idea because it makes it easy for the competition . Using Links with a protected directory makes sense - but Links could have some of the fat cut for easier use, agreed - we don't need 'Hot' etc. here. Using our familiar WWWThreads would be one alternative - but poor Scream would have to manually select the authorized users, right? After all, we would need a "licensed users only" area to prevent software theft.

I have to do some stuff late sat-night that will be fairly boring (watching large programs run...)... maybe I'll try to trim down the 'fat' a little bit...

When I get it all ready, I'll let rick take a look-see... if it gets his okay, maybe we can slick things up some...

matt

so how does he protect access so far?? I thought that the wwwthreads whiz would use wwwthreads for this purpose anyway

Apacha auth_dbi would use a database to do htaccess authentication using the database (anyone hacked this already?? if not, I will some day)

Then the same feature could be used for the access for the special authorized paying user's board

If the list of paying members is somewhere else, I am sure someone can hack a perl program that reads all members off that list and enters them inte a group called paying_members

I like the idea of a w3t special private 'Resources' board with it's own special 'Licenced' group. Nobody else would even know it was there.