Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/30/07 04:47

rf wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:kvednVyZON_Ki-ranZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@comcast.com...
>> twomt wrote:
>>> rf wrote:
>>>> "twomt" <no-reply@nemesiswar.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:fl5ea5$d1u$1@aioe.org...
>>>>> 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?
>

Maybe to allow your userid to be public yet keep your email private?

That's why I do it on my customers' sites.

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