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Posted by Peter Chant on 03/09/06 22:40
I'm considering setting a website up for a club. I do not plan the contents
to be for public consumption, but on the other hand I'm not going to have
anything on there that is confidential, that would cause a problem if it
went further.
The basic reason is for publicity of club events. I want to make it easy to
use. I suspect a login with a password would be too much effort for most
people. I also note that computer literacy is not a skill all of them
have, the sort of people who have not got the computer skills to be
confident to shop on Amazon.
Basically the problem is communication. Some of them read quarterly
newsletters, some of them bin them. I send the occasional email out with a
list of events, but if I do it too often some of them will start ignoring
them. I have found telephoning people individually to be very successful,
but I am not paid to do it and have a life.
However, I need to be proactive rather than take the curl up and die
approach. For those who are keen on the idea a website might help.
I suspect that security through obscurity is just to lax, a url
http://foo.bar/tbntrjvoprnio/index.html
is just pointless.
My plan is as follows:
1. Make them log in using their email address as a username. Email them
their passwords first.
2. For people who have cookies enabled, store a cookie on their computer
identifying them.
3. Use the cookies for future logins. Perhaps change the cookie at the
start of each session. Perhaps make this expire.
Alternatively, or if cookies are off, I could require a code, used for one
session only, to be used for a session. The user would enter their email
address. If it matched a list then the code would be sent to the user via
email and they could use it as a password.
Any thoughts? I do not want to make a special mail shot just to give
everyone passwords by mail. Too much effort and cost for too little
reward.
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