autoval

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 <chalkbd q continuum net>
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).