I'm coming to this discussion without much background, so apologies if I am
missing something, but from what I gather all you're trying to do is check
for active contributors? If so, why not send an email along the following
lines instead of requiring password resets?
"According to our records yo
Mike McGrath wrote:
I discovered long ago there's no glory in what we do. Gotta fight the
good fight just because it's there.
There's a truism I wish I'd never heard.
It's not my idea of security, it's my idea of a task. I just want some
concrete thing that has a begining, middle, and
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Mike McGrath wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think we shouldn't go too far out of our way for people that can't
> > > > follow directions. Harsh? Yes, but what we asked
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
Mike McGrath wrote:
I think we shouldn't go too far out of our way for people that can't
follow directions. Harsh? Yes, but what we asked of people was
incredibly trivial. I'd be fine with asking people to log in bu
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> >
> >> the proper way)... the only reason for having people login will be
> >> immediately
> >> obvious via
> >> a properly worded email (ie., "Due to inactivity on your FAS acc
Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
>
>> the proper way)... the only reason for having people login will be
>> immediately
>> obvious via
>> a properly worded email (ie., "Due to inactivity on your FAS account, your
>> account will be
>> terminated in 1 month, un
Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> 5. Password resets could be introducing less secure passwords. This
>> one's hard for me to quantify. If you use a strong password the first
>> time, what's the likelihood that each reset will bring some number of
>> users to us
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I think we shouldn't go too far out of our way for people that can't
> > follow directions. Harsh? Yes, but what we asked of people was
> > incredibly trivial. I'd be fine with asking people to log in but I'd
> > think we
Mike McGrath wrote:
I think we shouldn't go too far out of our way for people that can't
follow directions. Harsh? Yes, but what we asked of people was
incredibly trivial. I'd be fine with asking people to log in but I'd
think we'll find lots of people find that confusing. Logging in and
sett
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
>> So holy crap does the planet hate it when you ask people to reset their
>> passwords. In particular though, they hated the following:
>>
>> 1. Kittens
>>
>> 2. "Password Expiration" is confusing and does not imply "account
>> expiration". Some may h
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >
> 5. Password resets could be introducing less secure passwords. This
> one's hard for me to quantify. If you use a strong password the first
> time, what's the likelihood that each reset will bring some number of
> users to use an insecure password
Mike McGrath wrote:
> So holy crap does the planet hate it when you ask people to reset their
> passwords. In particular though, they hated the following:
>
> 1. Kittens
>
> 2. "Password Expiration" is confusing and does not imply "account
> expiration". Some may have ignored the warning becaus
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> So holy crap does the planet hate it when you ask people to reset their
> passwords. In particular though, they hated the following:
>
> 1. Kittens
Personally I thought people were having kittens for all the 'problems'
occurring. Maybe we sh
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:41:33PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> So holy crap does the planet hate it when you ask people to reset their
> passwords. In particular though, they hated the following:
>
> 1. Kittens
>
> 2. "Password Expiration" is confusing and does not imply "account
> expiration".
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