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Re: Factoring going off line for a while
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Date: 
Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:28:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
(if this posts, I got the setup stuff right on the webpage. I hate that
process... I just want to log in to LUGNET and tell it "refresh my cookie on
this machine that I haven't used before)...)

Well -- hey -- better yet, what if the server said, "Hey, Hi! You seem to be
using a machine that you haven't used before.  Store a cookie with your info?"
(With, of course, a "don't ask again" checkbox if you say 'no'...)

I'm assuming this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the huge security loophole,
neh?  Agreed, unless it were possible for a member to do it, AFTER logon.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/

PS: your messages don't appear to be threading properly (at least via the web
interface)... playing with a new reader?



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(...) Well -- hey -- better yet, what if the server said, "Hey, Hi! You seem to be using a machine that you haven't used before. Store a cookie with your info?" (With, of course, a "don't ask again" checkbox if you say 'no'...) --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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