"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags">if you figure this out, I'd sure like to know the answer. I know how to filter them so that they can only go to one place, but I have no idea how to tell them that to try and go to that one place. I don't think it's possible. if it were, I could force people whose paid time has run out to a page telling them that and giving them payment options.
Frank M. Cook
This is more or less what we are trying to do. We get calls all the time from people saying the system
is reporting they have a bad password. In fact it does report that because they didn't pay their bill and
their account is turned off. We want to set up a test account that they can use to connect and then go
view their own account information. Unlike the days of WorldGroup its not even possible to give a user
any time at all to connect and pay their bill online if their account has expired. Greg Gooden told me once
that all of the previous WG sysops would come to appreciate just how powerful locks and key really are.
He was right on target. There is 10 times the functionality in WG than an any billing package for ISPs.
What really gets me is that when I ask the ISP billing software companies why this functionality is not
in their software the response I always receive is that "no one else has ever asked for it". I can't imagine
that no ISP ever want wanted to be able to limit the amount of time per day any one account could stay online.
A low cost casual dialup account can stayed connected 24/7 and not have to pay the high cost of a dedicated
access account. We had to have custom code written to prevent this from happening.
Larry
