On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:55:59 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scrawled:
> It is no wonder so many sites and machines continue to get hijacked. More
> and more systems begin to force period password changes and introduce a
> variety of rules including a dictionary lookup. Don't get me started on
> the habits of writing passwords on paper notes. Set up a site without a
> 'fetch password using E-mail' feature and you'll have a support nightmare.
We had to get rid of a bulletin board because it did just that AND had
no way for administrators to retrieve the password (no, I didn't
choose or implement it)
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MGW
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've
always got.
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