Online email providers
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I thought it was about time to rotate the passwords in a couple of junk email accounts I created years ago.
<font size="3">Email provider #1</font>
A badly formulated error message. Pretty minor, I know. But I love how somehow I got a doubled navigation bar.
What I don't love are their password requirements:
So I absolutely must type both an upper- and lower-case character, a digit and one of those non-alphanumeric characters. But I can't have a password over 20 characters.
Also, not pictured: the type-your-own* security question has maxlength=30, which is rather short.
<font size="3">Email provider #2</font>
It looked like I had forgotten the password, so I asked for a recovery link to be sent my other email account which fortunately was still available.
I follow the link, type my new password plus it's confirmation in the page that appears, and I get "Entered passwords do not match".
No, I did not mistype. What I then notice as I try again is that the second input field has maxlength=16; unlike the first.
So I merrily twicely typed away the password I wanted and pressed Enter without really looking at the input fields, so I didn't notice one the passwords was being truncated while the other wasn't.
For the record, the login box doesn't have a limit on the password length.
*Email provider #2 doesn't give you the option of typing your own security questions. You get to pick out of 9 questions. Including "what is your maternal grandmother's maiden name". I guess that's a safer questiona that asking for my mother's maiden name?
Oh well, I guess I get what I paid for.
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Ah, passwords. You'd think that after over 50 years using them, people would have figured them out.
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How are ordinary people going to understand "digits [0-9]". Besides that, when literally interpreted, it means having 10 digits in your password.
I've had a problem similar to the maxlength problem once, but it wasn't on a free site, but rather on the site of a major airline: they demanded that I change my name (which was a string, but apparently they didn't like two initials) but then had a restriction on the input field that made it illegal to edit. In HTML, of course. Greasemonkey could disable it, if I remember properly. But well, it was the same airliner that had a maximum of 256 characters for "remarks" which were appended straight to a query...
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hey here's a joke: hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 hahahaha it's a funny joke hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 hunter lololol
There, pre-empted that shit.
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@blakeyrat said:
hey here's a joke: hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 hahahaha it's a funny joke hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 hunter2 hunter lololol
There, pre-empted that shit.
Hey, that's a incrowd meme. You're not supposed to widespread it. That warms it up.
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@blakeyrat said:
hey here's a joke: ******* ******* ******* hahahaha it's a funny joke ******* ******* ******* ******* ****** lololol
There, pre-empted that shit.You know, this is an adult forum. You are allowed to swear. Putting stars in there makes you sound like a 14 year old who just discovered the word "damn" on his wrestling forum.
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What, as opposed to offline email providers?
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Holy crap there's still public email providers besides Gmail, Yahoo and MSN?
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@TGV said:
How are ordinary people going to understand "digits [0-9]". Besides that, when literally interpreted, it means having 10 digits in your password.
You're over (and incorrectly) thinking things here. Not like an ordinary person at all.
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@boomzilla said:
You're over (and incorrectly) thinking things here. Not like an ordinary person at all.
Alternate phrasing: ordinary people are significantly smarter than TGV.
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@MiffTheFox said:
Holy crap there's still public email providers besides Gmail, Yahoo and MSN?
My dad uses Juno... oddly enough, so does one of my brothers - and he's in COLLEGE!
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@ekolis said:
@MiffTheFox said:
Holy crap there's still public email providers besides Gmail, Yahoo and MSN?
My dad uses Juno... oddly enough, so does one of my brothers - and he's in COLLEGE!
i says, is our children learn?
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