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Re: Member Password Center
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 11 May 2000 18:40:59 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > Lar said in passing:
> > > > Leaving the issue of how secure passwords should be aside for the moment,
> > >
> > > Lets not.
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> > Let's do. Todd has stated his position on this many, many times, and has • shown
> > little desire to change his mind. Dragging it back out would only foment
> > trouble and breed bad feelings (not to mention the smaller matter of raising
> > the noise-to-signal ratioof Lugnet), and I doubt anyone really wants that.
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> Agreed.
The fact that an issue results in high traffic means that it needs fixed - not
swept under the carpet. The merits of my suggestion aside, some pretty weak
logic is being applied here.
Scott A
> I've got two memorable passwords right now. One happens to be taken
> from a sentence that denotes what I think of the current level of security,
> which makes it VERY memorable for me, anyway. :-)
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> So I would agree. no need to raise the ratioof! (either that's some new • fangled
> roof or the sound of someone being smacked for bringing up the topic, I'm not
> sure which...)
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> I'd rather see discussion about the rest of what I was asking about, that is,
> ways to sunset passwords that you've out and out lost or forgotten, or in
> general, how to go about retrieving a password you've lost or killing it off
> somehow.
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> ++Lar
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| (...) Not necessarily. The logic is both simple and sound: 1) Arguments have been made. 2) Todd has made a decision. 3) Further arguments have been made. 4) Todd has basically said under no circumstances is he going to change his mind. It's not so (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) shown (...) Agreed. I've got two memorable passwords right now. One happens to be taken from a sentence that denotes what I think of the current level of security, which makes it VERY memorable for me, anyway. :-) So I would agree. no need to (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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