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Re: Member Password Center
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 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. :-)
> 
> 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...)
> 
> 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.
> 
> ++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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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