On 10 Jan 2007 08:50:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am constantly amazed at the number of sites which FORBID the use of >special characters in passwords and userid's. And by the sites which >LIMIT the length of passwords and userid's. Since the number of possible >combinations increases exponentially with the possibe values for each >character and the number of characters, I cannot fathom why they impose >such limits. But they do on such financial sites as Vanguard Mutual >Funds, Scottrade, and World Savings. I eMail them regularly and complain, >but I have seen no changes so far. There may be a case for forbidding >certain special characters, and I think that requiring special characters >might be counter productive, but I cannot see any logical reason for >completely forbidding them.
I'm amazed about the number of sites that believe that the consumers should do things their way. Some other examples include: 1. Not accepting spaces in credit card numbers (there's a reason they are on the cards). 2. Not accepting 8 digit zip codes. 3. Not accepting complex names with mixed case letters. 4. Making it extremely difficult to get help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
