On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:46, cricket wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> > >> FWIW, I hate sites that require me to use an email address as a username, >> because I have an infinite number of email addresses available to me via the >> catch-all rule at my domain name, and I can never remember which email >> address I used to register at any particular site. Plea to all site >> designers: Allow me to pick a username that I can remember. > > If you have a catch-all rule, just incorporate the site name into the > email address you use.
We're getting off-topic now, but: * I do * I also usually include the year in the address; if it's been years since I've registered with a site, there is often lots of guessing involved in finding the right year, though I try to keep my address updated, on sites that let me change it * Some sites do not allow you to use their name in your email address I see this problem with non-techie people too; whenever my step-mother needs to log into a site, I see her struggling for several minutes to try different combinations of email addresses and passwords. She too has multiple email addresses; not as many as me, and not really by choice. I suppose I should be advocating for the use of single-signon systems. Of course, until *every* site a user visits makes use of the *same* single-signon system, it doesn't solve the problem. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
