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Subject: 
PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
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Date: 
Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:30:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Sorry if you feel the password checker is useless.

Useless was a bit harsh, sorry... let's just call it less useful than quite
a few other things, and more useful than a few other things.

Fair enough.


And clearly you enjoyed doing it

Not really.  Wish I hadn't had to.


and enjoyed that other people enjoyed playing with it.

Not really, no.  It's not intended as a toy or a means of entertainment.
I enjoyed getting feedback on aspects of it to the extent that getting
useful feedback is enjoyable.


Nothing wrong with geeking out on low priority things, after all.
For if that were so, all of us would be better served doing our real work
100% of the time instead of enjoying our hobby, eh?

Not sure what/if you are insinuating between the lines there, or whether I
should feel insulted by that comment, but having a password validator that
doesn't suck is IMHO a fundamental prerequisite to allowing passwords to be
changed.  Anything less is irresponsible.  (Yes, I know, allowing too much
time to pass before facilitating the change of passwords is also arguably
irresponsible, but it's a much lesser maximum risk.)

Can we drop this argument?

--Todd



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  Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
 
(...) Even if you have great passwords - can't just anyone in the intervening networks between the user and LUGNET just snoop in and copy down the unencrypted password? Richard (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: PW validation (was: Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful?)
 
(...) I haven't posted with respect to this in a while, but I would like to say that if you use this current validator to validate what people can choose for passwords you might as well just not use it and keep sticking people with the ones you are (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: Opinions wanted: article rating harmful? (was: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) Time is time, all I have to do is look at the number of posts about it to tell that some time was spent on it, by you, by me, by others, regardless of how much time was development time vs playing with it time vs loading up its DB. I won't (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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