Posted by Thundercat Stevens on 11/25/05 14:40

Neredbojias <invalid@neredbojias.com> wrote in
news:MPG.1df069d9a97340059896e3@news.isp.com:

> With neither quill nor qualm, Thundercat Stevens quothed:
>
>> Neredbojias <invalid@neredbojias.com> wrote in
>> news:MPG.1def507e533b630a9896db@news.isp.com:
>>
>> > With neither quill nor qualm, Thundercat Stevens quothed:
>> >
>> >> Neredbojias <invalid@neredbojias.com> wrote in
>> >> news:MPG.1deee90f50d118229896d7@news.isp.com:
>> >>
>> >> > With neither quill nor qualm, Thundercat Stevens quothed:
>> >> >
>> >> >> And any other dumb site.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Please don't force me to remember my user name AND email
address.
>> >> >> If I am in your database, send my user name to my email address
>> >> >> when I request it.
>> >> >
>> >> > What's the difference between that and the user_name/pw
>> >> > combination?
>> >>
>> >> Erm, with one, I don't have to remember some obscure user name.
After
>> >> about 50 sites, I tend to forget what flippant thing I typed in in
>> >> the first place.
>> >
>> > I agree with that and suffer the same problem, but still see no
>> > difference in forgetting an obscure user-name/pw set or a user-
>> > name/email set.
>>
>> To clarify, all I should have to remember is my email address, which
>> doesn't ever change.
>
> But anyone could enter your email address as you, couldn't they? In
> this case perhaps the "username" really functions as a p/w to verify
> your true identity.

Can they also retrieve my password from my mailbox?


>> >> >> Your site, she is broken. Fix her.
>> >> >
>> >> > Most sites are broken, especially the high-ranking ones.
>> >>
>> >> Hell, all of my sites are crippled beyond belief.
>> >
>> > I don't know if you are joking or not, but I'll bet the most
>> > technically-correct and functional sites are not among the most
>> > popular on the whole.
>>
>> Stupid standards! I have better things to do than get anal retentive
>> about technical details. It works in Firefox, good enough for me.
>
> It would help if all browsers interpreted and reacted to the standards
> in the same fashion, yes. Unfortunately, they don't and probably won't
> in my lifetime.

Standards are so Nazi.


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