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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:50:32 GMT
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LAR@nospamVOYAGER.NET
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Lorbaat wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
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> > Yeah, I don't think I've ever "signed in" simply because I can't
> > bother to keep up with another password I didn't pick. Once I hear I
> > can login ONCE with this password I refuse to put any effort into
> > holding onto or remembering and change it to something I can remember
> > without effort, I'll do it. Until then, having a password without the
> > ability to change it isn't of much value to me.
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> Currently you *can* login "ONCE" by selecting "never log me out" (or something
> similar, I don't remember the exact wording). I logged in once at home, and
> have never re-entered my passwd. When I come back and dial up, opena browser,
> and go to Lugnet, I'm still logged in.
I use too many machines for this to be useful to me. Plus I lose my
cookies (sounds kinda gross) often enough on the machines I DO use on a
regular basis.
> I will admit that here at work I'm not logged in because I haven't bothered to
> jot down my passwd and bring it in, though.
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> IMHO, the ability to change your passwd would be nice, but I'd rather see
> wholly new features like article rating than that particular improvement on an
> existing feature.
Disagree strongly.
If the spiffy new feature isn't usable because of an easy to fix
limitation that prevents or hinders a large subset of the population
from using it.
Again, fixed passwords are wrong. They are less secure and less user
friendly. We can go into this in depth in .geek if you want.
--
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| (...) That must be a lot of machines. I use one at home (which happens to get multiple IPs from dynamic IPaddressing from my ISP, but that makes no difference in the way that the Lugnet server sees me, thanks to cookies) but I use one of a pool of (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: New feature: Article rating
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| (...) Ditto to that. I currently can (and do) access Lugnet from at least 5 machines at home, 3 machines in my cube at work, and any number of machines scattered around campus (what else am I supposed to do while waiting for a server to do something (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Currently you *can* login "ONCE" by selecting "never log me out" (or something similar, I don't remember the exact wording). I logged in once at home, and have never re-entered my passwd. When I come back and dial up, opena browser, and go to (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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