Re: Sites requiring registration to post a comment

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From: Phil!Gregory
Subject: Re: Sites requiring registration to post a comment
Date: 19:33 on 24 Mar 2005
* Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> [2005-03-22 10:03 -0500]:
> My "favorite" is my login for the Apple Developer's site, where the 
> password has credible minimum complexity requirements (it must have 
> letters, numbers, and mixed case; it can't be based on a dictionary 
> word; etc) and you have to change the thing every few months.

A while back I tried to create a web account for Verizon.  They set some
complexity minimums--at least six characters, at least one digit--so,
given that, and because it was for my phone account and involves at least
semi-access to financial information, I tried to put a decent password
in.  It failed.  Apparently, they have complexity *maximums*, too; only
alphanumeric characters are allowed.  Hate.

As a separate hate, they also didn't like my putting a plus sign in my
email address.  But that's an already well-established hate.

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