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Re: New feature: Article rating
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:29:22 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.STOPSPAMMERScom
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:16:00 GMT, "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>
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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.
>
> 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.
That might be fine for home (or maybe it wouldn't be - maybe my wife
and I share a computer to access LUGNET (we don't, since I have more
than a few computers, but we could)?) but it wouldn't work for work.
My LUGNET packet is sitting in my desk at work, waiting for me to use
that password, if I ever get to change it myself. Until then I won't
be using it. I have to keep track of more passwords than most people
because of my job - I'm not using any more brain cells to keep track
of one I had no say in.
> 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.
>
> 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.
But what good are those cool new features if you can't access them
without signing in? IMNSHO the inability to change your password to
something of your choice (even within certain length/composition
restrictions) is a serious flaw, especially from the user perspective.
Both Larry and I agree on this - that means we have to be right.
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| (...) Why would you have to keep track of it if you were always logged in? You'd type it in once and that would be that. Trust me, my job requires no small amount of passwds to be remembered by me, too. (...) Who said all the new features were going (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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