Not confined to just the Times -- this was the suggestion of one of the senior management at BGEP when I was there and we had a need to start fresh with their universal registration process. I managed to convince them that it was not a good approach to take, though I'm sure most of them thought it was just me being difficult...
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Drew Taylor wrote: > http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1482 > > NYTimes.com switched their premium membership software and changed the > password to be your login id. Please don't do this on any sites you > control. To make this relevant, a simple perl script could have generated > new random passwords in just a few lines. > > And I thought it was interesting considering the parent company of our very > benevolent sponsor, who so generously provides us w/ pizza & drinks. Thanks > Boston.com! :-) > -- Steve Reppucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Logical Choice Software http://logsoft.com/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My God! What have I done? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
