On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:33:33AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:15 +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Change the captcha for each failed attempt, or every n failed attempts.
And hence back to the original hate ...
Captchas are hateful anyway. I get them wrong at least half
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:07:44PM +0100, Andrew
Black - lists wrote:
How many times have I gone to a form
Username : AndrewB
Password: x
Password again: x
email:
Graphic to check you are really human :
Submit
Sorry AndrewB is taken
And for that
Peter da Silva skribis 2007-06-05 19:30 (-0500):
And for that matter, why do I want to have a username? Why can't I
just use my email address,
What happens when you want to change it?
Then you probably need to reconfirm.
Do you foresee any problems?
As opposed to remembering which email
On Jun 5, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Peter da Silva skribis 2007-06-05 19:30 (-0500):
And for that matter, why do I want to have a username? Why can't I
just use my email address,
What happens when you want to change it?
Then you probably need to reconfirm.
Do you foresee
Peter da Silva wrote:
I have to remember which contortion of my usual username wasn't
already taken by some previous user of the system. GH!
As opposed to remembering which email address you used?
At least that is under you control (largely). I try to use one of two
different email
On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
You change your email address, you lose all the accounts tied to
it, sooner or later.
..hence the appeal of a pobox.com account, which just forwards on to
whatever account you feel like using that week, and the people
sending you mail --
http://www.mailinator.com/
That's a bit TOO throwaway for my liking. o_O
* Robert Rothenberg rob...@gmail.com [2007-06-06 11:30]:
I wouldn't say most websites. (I'm often surprised at how
many websites will still let me submit anonymous comments.)
Not surprising at all. Unless you have the gravity of a social
networking site or a large forum, requiring account
* Timothy Knox t...@thelbane.com [2007-06-06 00:05]:
Why can't I just use my email address, and if the website needs
something it can display to others, let me enter my name.
This is me, failing to hate OpenID.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/
On 5 Jun 2007, at 16.07, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
How many times have I gone to a form
...
Why can't it check your username is sensible before all the other
things. I guess with Ajax you can
Indeed, indeed. It's not just checking the username, for that matter.
It's any sort of
How many times have I gone to a form
Username : AndrewB
Password: x
Password again: x
email:
Graphic to check you are really human :
Submit
Sorry AndrewB is taken
Change to AndrewBlack
Sorry you must give a password (been cleared down)
Type password twice
Sorry AndrewBlack is taken
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 21:07 +0100, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
How many times have I gone to a form
Why can't it check your username is sensible before all the other
things. I guess with Ajax you can
Yes this is annoying, especially where you have a big stupidly designed
form that
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