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    Posted: 18 February 2003 at 4:19am
Hey borg, I haved a look on the phpBB-forum and they have a "dissallow username control" in the admin menu. Do you think you can add it to beta 4?
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The problem is that the more things like this you place in the database, the slower the forum will run.
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Yes, of course. But sometimes it's worth it and I think that this feature is a good one! Think about it!
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What will it give you to disallow some of the usernames?
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just open up register.asp and around line 393 you can add usernames that you want to disable.
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Yeah, i see, cool! I didn't know WWG has this feature....
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the feature is currentlly in place to stop people trying to register as admin or code or password etc.. help stop hackers
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