Posted by rf on 12/30/07 04:45

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> twomt wrote:
>> rf wrote:
>>> "twomt" <no-reply@nemesiswar.net> wrote in message
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>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> are there any tutorials/guides out there that explain how to handle
>>>> this subject?
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking of having a member enter his username and email, after
>>>> which I then email him a new password.
>>>
>>> To where would you email him the new password? What if I enter my email
>>> address, do you email his new password to me?
>>>
>>> -- Richard.
>>>
>>
>> The username and email have to match what is stored in the db,
>> if these match the new password would be mailed to that userid.
>>
>
> What's the sense in making them input their email address? Just send it.
>
> Otherwise you might have someone like me with 3 email addresses I use
> regularly and a couple of others occasionally. I don't care which it goes
> to - I check them all. But only I can get at any of them, anyway. And I
> might not remember which one I used when I signed up.

In many of the places where I have a user-id (ISP, hosting etc) the email
address *is* the user-id. The real question then becomes: why do I need a
seperate "member-id" when one of my email addresses identifies me anyway?

--
Richard.

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