Honestly, the 2nd option is probably the cleanest and most efficient way to validate accounts my email address.
I would store all account information by email address either in a single account file or in a subdirectory containing all pfiles for that player. Example: You have 5 players, bob, sue, john, ellen, and michael (all @example.com). You might have such a directory structure as this: ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bob.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sue.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/irtehleetkillar.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/john.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ellen.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/michael.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/korteliandree4431.pfile ~/accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/somesillynamethaticannotpronouncegivenadictionaryandacompass.pfile Now, someone goes to log into your system. They log in with the name [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or try to log in anyway) We'll notice there is no accts/[EMAIL PROTECTED] directory. So we immediately know that we have to create a new account. Now, [EMAIL PROTECTED] decides to come play, and you immediately notice that there is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] directory. So you get a list of all the .pfile's in the directory and present them as character choices to play as. Mark -- ROM mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe here ->>> http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
