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--- config_newuser_settings2 [2017/04/15 21:28] – quote mode avon
+++ config_newuser_settings2 [2021/06/24 08:37] (current) – g00r00
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 This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure the second of several sections of settings that apply to new users when registering to join the BBS. Here you can decide if you want to ask new users a variety of questions.
-This example screen displays the options available.
-          █▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ New User Settings ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄
-          █                                                                █
-          █  Ask Theme      │ No             Ask Email      │ Yes          █
-          █  Ask Real Name  │ Yes            Date Type      │ DD/MM/YY     █
-          █  Ask Alias      │ Yes            Hot Keys       │ Yes          █
-          █  Ask Street     │ No             Protocol       │ No           █
-          █  Ask City/State │ Yes            Node Chat      │ ANSI         █
-          █  Ask ZipCode    │ No             File List      │ ANSI         █
-          █  Ask Home Phone │ No             Message Reader │ ANSI         █
-          █  Ask Cell Phone │ No             Read at Index  │ Yes          █
-          █  Ask Birthdate  │ Yes            Email at Index │ Yes          █
-          █  Ask Gender     │ Yes            Message Editor │ Full         █
-          █  Ask UserNote   │ No             Quote Mode     │ Window       █
-          █  Ask Screensize │ No                                           █
-          █                                                                █
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 === Ask Theme ===
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 === Ask Screensize ===
-If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their screen pause length. The default is 24 lines. Mystic uses prompt #153 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
+If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their screen length before a pause prompt is sent. The default is 24 lines. Mystic uses prompt #153 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
 === Ask Email ===
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 === Read at Index ===
-If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to choose if they wish to use the lightbar with the message index reader. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. Mystic uses prompt #429 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
+This option determines if the user starts reading messages at the message index, or directly to the messages themselves. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. When this option is set to Yes, the user will start at the message index before actually reading any messages. Mystic uses prompt #429 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
 === Email at Index ===
-If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to choose if they start at the message index in email when using the lightbar message reader. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. Mystic uses prompt #331 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
+This option determines if the user starts reading e-mail at the email message index, or directly to the e-mail messages themselves. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. When this option is set to yes, the user will start e-mail at the e-mail index before actually reading any BBS emails. Remember BBS email is internal BBS only messages sent between users. Don't confuse it with Internet email. Mystic uses prompt #331 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
 === Message Editor ===
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 If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to choose if they wish to use the full screen editor when quoting messages they are replying to. Valid options are Ask, Line or Window. Mystic uses prompt #60 in default.txt to display the text for this question.
+=== Taglines ===
+This option sets the default Tagline setting for new user accounts.  Existing users can change these settings in the full screen editor.  The following options are available:
+| On       | Prompt user to select Tagline when saving a message |
+| Off      | Do not use Tagline system |
+| Global   | Auto apply a Tagline from the Global tagline database |
+| Personal | Auto apply a Tagline for the user's Personal tagline database |