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In the next week or so, I'll be sending emails to all current website members for whom there is no plain text backup of their current Members Area password. These are primarily those members who were on the list when the Members Area was first created. All recent (1/1/2005 or later) members have the data in place. (If the site currently complains that it cannot provide a "Remind Me" when you put in your (valid) DCGLUG website username, you are one of those affected by this refresh!) The email will be automated from current database records. If you receive one, please reply to me indicating which of the options you would like to pursue. In due course, those who do not reply at all will be deleted from the Members Area to enable the site to move to MySQL authentication. Once deleted, you would need to rejoin using the DCGLUG website (mailman will take care of not subscribing you to the list twice). This, in turn, will allow other improvements like the removal of the irksome firstname/lastname rules, adding Logout links and allowing easier persistent login. I expect to do this via PHP Session cookies. If you have a paranoid obsession with not using any form of cookie, please let me know and I'll investigate adding gobbledegook to the internal URL's to avoid the use of cookies. The cookie is just a session cookie, it merely exists to reduce the number of times a username+password combo is sent in plain text whilst viewing the members area pages. These cookies are not a problem for text-based browsers like lynx so I'm not expecting many users to have problems using them. The "Logout" links will allow you to clear the cookie whenever required and most browsers will delete these session cookies when the browser is closed, by default. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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