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Subject: Re: menu groups Date: Thu Dec 09 2021 11:05 am
From: g00r00 To: Edmund Wong

 EW> For instance,  I enter the Fidonet area, and I can access the
 EW> Fidonet message bases and file bases only.  When I select "Area change", it
 EW> only lists Fidonet-only areas.

You can do what you want in many different ways, but the easiest would be to
use the message group system.  You will need to create a message group in the
Message Group Editor called "FidoNet".

After you have created the FidoNet group in the group editor, note the "ID"
number associated to the group.  For this example lets say your FidoNet group
is ID 1 it will look like this in the list of groups within the editor:

Message Group Name                                     ID
---------------------------------------------------------
FidoNet                                                1

With the group created, you must now go into your Message Base Editor and set
up the message bases that you want to show up in that group.  Lets say you
have a FidoNet base called "MYSTIC", and you open it up for editing.  You will
see a "List ACS" in the settings.  This is what tells Mystic what the user must 
have to see that message base.  Yours by default might look like "s20" which
means the user must have a security level of 20 or higher to see it.

If you add "g1" to the List ACS it will tell Mystic that the user must also be
in group 1 in order to see the base in the list.  So if you changed "s20" to
"s20g1" and save the base, it will now only show up when the user has a
security level of 20 AND has joined group 1 (which is your FidoNet group).

As another example here is what my MYSTIC echo looks like in my message base
configuration:

Name        | MYSTIC
Base Type   | Networked
Echo Tag    | MYSTIC
List ACS    | s10(g1|g5)
Read ACS    | s10(g1|g5)
Post ACS    | s20(g1|g5)
Sysop ACS   | s255(g1|g5)
Net Address | 1:129/215 (FidoNet)

My BBS uses a little more complex variation which allows the base to show up in 
two groups at the same time.  My List ACS is "s10(g1|g5)" which means that the
user must have a security level of 10 or higher, and be in either group 1 (my
FidoNet group) or group 5 (All Message Bases group) to see the MYSTIC base.

Now on my BBS when a user is logged in they must change to either the FidoNet
or All Message Bases group using the Change Group option before they will see
the MYSTIC echo.

Hope this helps.
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