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Chris Maunder wrote: there's only one of me scanning this page
Chris. It is rumoured that you sleep for 1 minute every 40 years, and that you take your sustenance from the air. Surely that's enough; especially when you have VDK reporting in from the trenches every 3 minutes. 
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>> Moved from General Discussions <<
This website is great. But has anyone noticed that when you forgot your password and have "it" sent by email, code project will send you your password? I think this should be changed to sending a newly generated, random password by email, because a lot of people will use their code project password for other and possibly important purposes, where it's security shouldn't be compromised.
Thanks,
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niik wrote: this should be changed to sending a newly generated, random password by email, because a lot of people will use their code project password for other and possibly important purposes
Still better; how about providing a link which can 'RESET' the password instead of sending out any password by plain text.
I have also seen a couple of websites where the hyperlink itself works only for six hours. But this again suffers other problems like when the SMTP server is on a very slow network, then a manual moderator/admin assistance might be required.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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I (and most people I talk to) prefer to have your actual password sent so you can be reminded and reuse it instead of having to go in and reset your password.
I'll run a quick poll and see what the consensus is
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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When the poll hits the frontpage could you post a heads up here? I have the forum bookmarked directly and rarely see the main page.
EDIT: never mind I saw the thread in the lounge.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
modified on Monday, March 24, 2008 11:01 AM
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Could you possibly provide an option? Not that I hate the system but for the sake of over bearing security I wouldn't mind it.
Brad
Australian
The PHP MVP
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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All of a sudden in all the article pages which I visit I am presented with the following message:
You are signed up for one or more newsletters but your email address has not been reconfirmed in a long time. Please click here to have an email sent that will allow us to confirm your email address and continue sending you newsletters containing the latest articles posted.
This had been the same email address used across for messageboards and articles with filters and rules set appropriately. So, I really don't know what is the need for a redundant superflous confirmation?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Vasudevan, as a web developer I would have thought you would be the first to understand that an email address is a fleeting thing and the importance of sending emails only to those addresses that are valid, active and interested.
You know those complaints we occasionally see about members not receiving forum notifications? Much of this is due to an ISP (or organisation) deciding we're spammers. If it's noticed by one or more domains that we're sending them emails for accounts that aren't active (and haven't been for a while) then the put us on their spam lists and, if we're lucky, they put us on everyone elses spam lists too.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: an email address is a fleeting thing and the importance of sending emails only to those addresses that are valid, active and interested
Chris. I understand your point. But my actual concern was that there are two more conditions which can be checked to prevent a superflous network usage:
1)Email addresses same across forum and article
2)One or more email address which is currently recieving emails without any problem.
Actually, I posted the concern, after seeing the 'Email Bounce History' page of YahooGroups. In YahooGroups, you can actually have multiple email addresses (quite similar to CP which has two currently right -- one for article and one for forums). Now, they track the history of every address like
'Hard Bounce'
'Soft Bounce'.
And for every bounce message, they have something like 'Bounce Message' and 'Bounce DateTime' to expedite any troubleshooting.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Is it possible to start a new forum section for Microsoft Exchange server 2007.
just my idea !!!
Best Regards
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Abhijit Jana
Microsoft Certified Professional
"Success is Journey it's not a destination"
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Wouldn't Operating Systems/SysAdmin befit this?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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This may have already been brought up here, but a cursory look at the last few pages of post didn't turn up this question, so...
I've noticed a trend for new members to use a kind of default name, that is something like "Member 4234432." I'm guessing that perhaps a field is filled in when they join with this default name and many choose not to change it?
Whatever the reason, I'd suggest implementing a way to discourage this practise. Make new members actually come up with some kind of original name.
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We have a quick sign-up page that doesn't require a name. For those members we aiuto-generate. I'll add the Name field to give them more of a prompt
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I see no reason for a numeric name nor a quick sign-up. Why can't people sign up
properly? why do they need a quicker way, because they have an "urgent plz plz" question?
I am not interested in reading or replying to messages posted by "member xxxxxxxx".
Please stop this, always require a proper name.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I see no reason for a numeric name nor a quick sign-up. Why can't people sign up
properly?
AFAIK, you need to sign up in order to download files from articles.
Donno about you, but if the first exposure to this site was a link from Google to an article where i wanted the code, and upon clicking it i was required to fill in a big form full of details... i would probably leave and not return unless i was completely unable to find what i needed elsewhere.
I'm guessing the quick sign-up is a compromise for these users.
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Hi Member 20101,
I don't recall exactly how/when/why I joined CP, so I tried your suggestion.
A downloader-in-a-hurry is supposed to provide three answers: name, password
and e-mail, that seems easy enough. And apparently the name is optional,
which is what I regret.
If CP wants to keep the name optional, I would suggest they turn the quick
account it into a temporary account, something that will insist on becoming
a real account or stops working after 2 weeks.
If we keep it the way it is, pretty soon the forums will be flooded by
numeric members...
Regards,
Member 648011 [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: Hi Member 20101,
Ha, nice.
Luc Pattyn wrote: If CP wants to keep the name optional, I would suggest they turn the quick
account it into a temporary account, something that will insist on becoming
a real account or stops working after 2 weeks.
I don't remember the reason for the sign-in requirement, so i don't know whether that'd work. But, it might be enough to just allow entering the name at that point.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Your signature's looking really messed up in FF2.x
The 'citizen...' text is ~1/3rd cur off by the sig seperator, and the green text is overlapping it.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Actually, that's intentional. 
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Why????
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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Just for the heck of it. 
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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It breaks the oposite direction in email notification. I get the 'hidden' top slice of your sig there.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop.
-- Matthew Faithfull
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I have to say that I like it.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: If we keep it the way it is, pretty soon the forums will be flooded by
numeric members...
I'm not a poster - I'm a free man.
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