At 10/18/01 7:22 AM, Michael J. Masin wrote: >>Wouldn't it be even more convenient to provide all this in a pre-configured >>link so that the client just needs to click it instead of clicking and >>typing/pasting two words in two input fields? > >Amen! So many try to key in the information rather than cut/paste (and >never get it right.)
Which brings me to another nit-pick: a lot of people don't understand case-sensitivity. This could be fixed by using numbers only as the approval key, rather than strings of letters like "dhYaDSmM". When generating initial default passwords, etc., I like to use numbers-only with even 1 and 0 removed (to prevent confusion with "L" and "o"). An eight-digit numbers-only string using digits 2-9 still gives you 16.7 million possible codes, and it's impossible for a user to misinterpret or mistype. (OK, I guess they could have Num Lock off, but at least they'll probably figure it out, whereas people who don't understand case-sensitivity won't.) But Kai Schaetzl's suggestion (a short URL eliminating the need to retype the key entirely) would be even better than all this. It could just take you to a page that has "Approve" and "Deny" buttons (as well as the WHOIS comparator, etc.). It couldn't be that hard to set up a system to deal with URLs like: http://approve.opensrs.org/4578664432783784 And that eliminates all of these problems completely. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies Put an animated US flag on your Windows desktop: http://deskflag.com/
