Hi Paul,
There's a quick and dirty way around your problem. Set up specific usergroups and use the default authorisation setting into: either open, if it's a public group, or wait, if you want to screen a user before access. I am using this approach on http://www.timedesk.nl/benstrip.htm It will mean as a webmaster you get a mail from a new user interested in joing the group. Works fine. There are countless solutions like this for problemsets that could be solved either way. I mean the programmer's route, or the dummies route. I did learn the last 12 months that with a bit of creativity 80% of issues can be solved this way. Maybe not the way your like it, but it helps to cut down your specs list of issues you think you need to change in the code.
How are you doing by the way?
Cheers
