"Brian J. Murrell" wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:48:15PM -0800, Dmitri wrote: > > > > I guess he should use Microsoft Passport (R) (TM) then, right? :-) > > Be careful what you wish for... > > You probably don't realize it but you have helped to make my point. > The more sites we have to register for and remember passwords for, the > better something as evil as Passport looks. While your question about personal certificates is germain, the fact remains that a lot of sites still require registration. And the comment regarding Passport looking better and better is not, at least to me, accurate. I've got a lot of accounts, and unique passwords, to juggle, but registering them with an 'authority' like Microsoft... or O'Reilly... or the US Government strikes me as a direct request for personal information to be abused. If that's the only way you can manage the various accounts and passwords you need to maintain, so be it. But please don't try to convince me I should support you because you're having problems associated with trying to maintain too many accounts. > > One message is not a spam yet, and the Web site has some useful info. > > Agreed completely. My remarks were regarding his threat to spam other > lists, nothing at all to do with the message he posted. I don't at > all consider what he posted as spam. In fact it was very relevant. Or knee-jerk. To be honest, when I first read the post, I had a disconcerting impression of the statement. And then, upon 30 or 40 ms of reflection, I realized it was an attempt at humor. It didn't take ME long to make that leap, and I really have had a bad week. > And yes, it is useful info. I just won't be writing down yet another > account and password just to be able to contribute to it. Just my > personal feelings. Everyone else feel free to sign up. Oh. Thank you. > > If > > he does not advertise his efforts, who will? At very least, his post stays > > in v4l list archives. > > Agreed. Like I said, I thought his post was very relevant for this > list. Somehow, I didn't get that impression from your comments. All of us are, more than likely, busy, and somewhat overloaded. Did this diatribe really have to continue? -- Gerry Creager -- gerry@xxxxxxxxxxx Network Engineering Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies Texas A&M University 979.458.4020 (Phone) -- 979.847.8578 (Fax)
