John Plocher wrote:

> I think that this misses the point -  when I access the site once or
> twice a week, I do so to edit web pages and the like.  This policy limit
> (which seems overly restrictive to me) means that statistically, *every* 
> time community leaders like myself access the site to update page 
> content, they will be forced to relogin, making the remember-me feature 
> almost
> completely worthless to the very community leaders for whom it was 
> designed.

The remember me checkbox won't be there anyway.  You will still be able 
to use your browser's auto username/password feature, which means one 
extra click.

> Given that the current "4 years and counting" scheme hasn't exposed any 
> documented (or even alleged) instances of cookie theft and/or unauthorized
> alterations, and lacking any data to back up your preference for 
> "between one and four hours", I'd like to suggest that the predominant 
> use-case (not to mention industry-wide norms) calls for a 2-week period 
> instead.

Actually, that's not the case.  Sites that contain sensitive data use 
much shorter periods than that.

-- 
Alan Burlison
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