Dave, thank you for posting this.

This is exactly what we were looking for when I asked about a month ago if anyone knew how we could show our forums without letting people actually read the posts (until they register.) We decided limiting it to 10 views per day would be a great compromise (although I know I could change that number to anything.)
I have it installed and it is working fine.

I only put the [:"red"]$protected = 1;[/] in showflat.php and showthreaded.php. I couldn't really think of any other pages we'd need to restrict -- guests don't have access to Who's Online, User List, Member Profiles, etc., anyway. Am I missing something major? (Too many kids, too little sleep -- makes the mind slow.

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