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**Bill Graham**

CatNipped wrote:
I hate, hate HATE those companies that not only require a certain
number of characters, but refuse passwords that are recent repeats of
past passwords (like 20 passwords back, or won't allow consesequitive
letters, or common words, or anything at ALL easily memorable - no
wonder I can't ever get into the same place twice. What the heck do
they care if I get "hacked", that's *NY* problem, and besides, the
passwords I use and remember couldn't possibly be figured out by
anyone but me and *maybe* Ben. Who the hell are they to tell me
what's a proper password for me??!!
/password rant

"Bill Graham" wrote in message
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On Jun 18, 8:37 pm, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:14 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:20:31 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

"Kyla =^..^=" wrote in message
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"nice guy" nice wrote in message
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What is 'Welfair'?

Its, "welfare" for someone who, (for some reason or other)
doesn't want to use a spell checker and attempt to write in
plain English, but prefers to cover up spelling mistakes by
writing in some sort of intentional gibberish.

What? You not only post in English, I would bet you use your real
name.

Casady

If you are talking to me, then yes. Of course I use my real name.
Why would anyone not use his/her real name when posting on usenet,
unless they are a troll who is too chicken to stand behind
whatever he/she posts. I post the truth as well as I know it to
be, and stand behind everything I say. When I find out I am wrong
about something, then I post the correction. (Except there are
usually a thousand trolls who jump on my mistake before I get the
chance....:^)

I have been posting with my real name since 98 and never found a
downside to it. Real addy and after all this time the spammers
found me. I average one a day, sometimes for stuff I can use.

I have been using my real name since I started going online in 1993.
My email doesn't always show my real name in the header, but I do
not use a fake name or hide it. When I had acess to a regular
newsreader, I had a sig file that used my real name automatically.
I don't bother to sign my posts these days, but will add my name if
I tihnk it is helpful.

While I do not use my phone to text, I will send messages via my
ipod touch with a chat type program. Same mini keyboard, and I
spell out all my words. I hate cell phone chat style. It seems
pretty junior high to me.

If you would like to look up old posts in the archives, my first
email address was romulan (at) u.washington.edu as I was in college
when I started. I had 6 months with a stupid email that was study
something as I was studying online at that time. Then romulan (at)
cyberspace.com. And then in 1993, I got my own domain name, so
friesian (at) zoocrewphoto.com. My name is Meghan Noecker, and I am
not afraid to use my real name. Fake names are for people who want
to post things that would haunt them if they used their real name.

I do get a lot of spam, but I've been using the same email address
for 13 years, and I don't want to change it since it is a business
email address for me as well.

When I started out using the internet, I picked an email address
like weg (my initials). After several false starts, I ended up with
weg9 because all the weg's 1 through 8 were all used up.....By me!
But I couldn't tell them that so they could nullify the others and
just give me one. These are probably still on the books and still
can't be used by anyone. I still have this same problem today. When
I try to buy something from the internet, they ask me if I am a
returning customer. I don't know the answer to this question, so I
say yes. Then they ask me for a password or user name and I get it
wrong, so they say I am not a member. So then I try to sign up, and
when I give them my name and pick a password, it says, "I'm sorry,
but that name and/or password have already been used by someone
else. - Of course they have, you idiots, (I say) and that somebody
else is ME!! Half the problem is they have some minimum number of
characters that can be used in their passwords, and how big that
number is is a deep dark secret. They could say, please give us your
8 character password." But they don't. The leave it up to me to
guess how many characters they require. I have a password system
that generates the password based on how many characters it has. If
they refuse to tell me how many characters they require, then I
don't know what the password was. So there are businesses all over
the internet that have me listed several times on their books, but
there is only one of me, so the others never buy anything as far as
they know, but it impossible for me to remove them from their books
because I don't know the exact user name and password I need to do
that. It is only a question of time before all the available storage
space on all the on line sellers is used up by this kind of
junk.....

Yes. Consecutive letters rules kills some of my passwords. I need as many as
three consecutive letters in a row for some of my paqssword generations. So,
I cross companies that require two or less off my shopping list. Right now,
I am trying to generate a password system that aqutomatically encodes a
password of numbers, letters and special characters from a simpler system of
just a 5 or 6 digit number, based on the location of the keys on a standard
keyboard. If I could tell exactly when the password was first generated,
then I could develop it from the date, but, unfortunately, I have no way of
knowing this. The way I do it now is to generate an alpha-numeric password
based on a single number, but that doesn't work for some companies who
require a more involved password than that system is capable of. That's why
I am looking at trying to generate one from a number based on the location
of the letters and special characters on a standard keyboard. This is kind
of interesting to me because I was a math major, and number puzzles like
this are fun for me.