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  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) A couple questions about its structure...I don't know if you can answer these but it seems like you could maybe: Without giving away any hints about what it was, why did you think it was risky? Did it contain a word? Did it contain a word (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) If I even say that I can't answer without giving a hint, that's a hint. Therefore: I can't answer without either giving or not giving away hints as to what it is. :-( ++Lar (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) Bummer -- that makes me suspect that it really truly is a horrible password then (as you surmised, and pointed out to your coworker). Yet it passed, which makes me nervous. Welp, if you someday are able to convince your coworker that this (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) I can say this much. It's not your tests. It's the context. Just like your tests give (hypothetically speaking) Lugnet123 a so so score because Lugnet isn't a word, but we know that lugnet isn't a very good root for a password to lugnet (...) (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Automated password appraisal (Re: New feature: Article rating)
 
(...) OK, that helps...that's all I need to know...thanks! (...) Yup! (Although "Lugnet" is a word in Swedish, and it finds this. :) (...) Yup! I don't think I'll lose any sleep over it. --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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