John W. Baxter wrote: > >If the situation becomes a choice of >1. mail out the password becomes generate a new time-limited password and >mail that >Or >2. do away with passwords and have everything validated via a mailed-out >URL > >I think I as a user would prefer 2.
It is already hard enough to visit a private archive. E.g. if I have a link to a specific post and I follow it, by the time I get done logging in, my original link is forgotten and I go to the archive index instead. If I now have to wait for an e-mail and follow some confirmation link, I'm going to give up before I ever get there. I think there has to be a way to get directly to a private archive without going through some e-mailed confirmation. I might even be trying to access the archive from some machine that doesn't have access to the confirmation e-mail (perhaps a computer in a public library). I agree that for most other things, e-mail confirmation is fine. I.e. if I go to my options page and change a few things, I don't mind having to answer an e-mail confirmation to make the changes effective, although I'm sure some would have privacy concerns about others being able to visit their options page without authorization. Thus, on the whole I prefer passwords. Having to reset a forgotten password rather than being able to retrieve it would not be a problem for me. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org
