Regardless of settings.... it seems like people who have signed up to my board, who 'by settings' should not be 'validated' until I do it after the email address varification..... have REGISTERED status, but in the profiles ENABLED is set to 'disabled'.

The 'permissions' by group... guest, member etc. don't seem to be tracking the 'validated' settings. It seems like anyone that registers gets permissions 'too far up the scale' They can read AND post. I want GUESTS to be 'read only'. Members can post, respond, new threads, etc. Registered should be 'admin approved' while guests are anyone that registered who they are with the board, as 'guests' of the system.

Am I the only one that doesn't understand the REGISTERED and ENABLED/DISABLED status of users?

Or is my ranting...actually requesting a 'middle' level or multiple..settable levels of permisiions? Maybe consider seperating out READ POST REPLY DEL MOVE permissions each to its own 'switch'

ptegler