Re: Registered users...

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Registered-users-tp6735036p6744717.html

mywaytoo wrote

Why would anyone want to join my knit4dolls Forum as Unregistered? Maybe by accident? But I thought that you had changed things so that users had to register... ??? Any ideas???

Your unregistered user will be a subscriber, not a full registered forum user.

All registration does is link a username to an email address, allowing a user to make private replies to a poster.

Forum users need to register to post via the web interface, because Nabble needs to hide people's email address behind a username to keep it private when a users wants to post a private message to a poster.

Those who "subscribe" to a forum or topic rather than register, can only post to your forum via email and cannot make private replies. For subscribers, a username has no function as they have no way of making private replies. (They have to register to make a private reply and use the forum interface.)