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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:08:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:10:17 GMT, "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>
wrote:

LUGNET is a user-based community.  Right now it is a user-based
community with an anti-user password system.

A password system that, I remind you, controls your access to *two* things-
neither one of which even approaches being essential to normal use.

Well, there you go.  I didn't even know there was something else that
required you to sign in to access it.  So that is two features right now
that I cannot access (as a paid member) unless I choose to compromise the
same security these silly machine-generated passwords are supposed to protect.

That's two features now - maybe 20 features in 6 months.

I'd say if BN.com, Amazon.com, X.com, and others (all of which either store
my credit card info or my money) can let me pick a password, LUGNET can.



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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) It's been a month since this was brought up, just about. Any sort of timeline on when we can expect a fix? Reminder, not being able to change passwords means passwords are broken. It's that simple. ++Lar (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) A password system that, I remind you, controls your access to *two* things- neither one of which even approaches being essential to normal use. (...) I think that Todd's reasoning, posted elsewhere in this thread, is well-thought-out. Trying (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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