email address vs. user name for password authentication
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Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Others use a username and password. Personally I hate using a username and password combination because often times the username I have choosen is already taken. I'm signed up for so many websites that I can't remember my username for many of them (at least until I started using one of those password savers). Anyway, why do some sites use username and password. Is there any specific reason for this? It's a pet peeve of mine.
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Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Others use a username and password. Personally I hate using a username and password combination because often times the username I have choosen is already taken. I'm signed up for so many websites that I can't remember my username for many of them (at least until I started using one of those password savers). Anyway, why do some sites use username and password. Is there any specific reason for this? It's a pet peeve of mine.
I for one don't want to see my email address all over this place. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Others use a username and password. Personally I hate using a username and password combination because often times the username I have choosen is already taken. I'm signed up for so many websites that I can't remember my username for many of them (at least until I started using one of those password savers). Anyway, why do some sites use username and password. Is there any specific reason for this? It's a pet peeve of mine.
Why can't you just give your email address for the username - unless the site has a restriction on the number of characters in the username or does not like having '@'. I personally think that using an email address is better unless the site provides an e-mail service of its own. Thomas
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Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Others use a username and password. Personally I hate using a username and password combination because often times the username I have choosen is already taken. I'm signed up for so many websites that I can't remember my username for many of them (at least until I started using one of those password savers). Anyway, why do some sites use username and password. Is there any specific reason for this? It's a pet peeve of mine.
Usually it's so that you can take the one you want. :rolleyes: I personally love the sites that let me use my e-mail address. I'm the only one with that address. It's unique. Let me use it! Maybe this thread should have been put in the Rants and Raves forum. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
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Usually it's so that you can take the one you want. :rolleyes: I personally love the sites that let me use my e-mail address. I'm the only one with that address. It's unique. Let me use it! Maybe this thread should have been put in the Rants and Raves forum. David Stone dstone@newcenturytitle.com
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I for one don't want to see my email address all over this place. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
I would not mind for sites like CodeProject, though. I have an email address on hotmail that gets more than 100 mails a day. I am now trying to achieve the maximum number of spam mails that I can receive by giving this address to all places that need an email address and sends stuff that I do not want to read. :) Thomas
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I for one don't want to see my email address all over this place. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Others use a username and password. Personally I hate using a username and password combination because often times the username I have choosen is already taken. I'm signed up for so many websites that I can't remember my username for many of them (at least until I started using one of those password savers). Anyway, why do some sites use username and password. Is there any specific reason for this? It's a pet peeve of mine.
Remember that there is always the danger of some nasty sites misusing our email address. Nish
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Remember that there is always the danger of some nasty sites misusing our email address. Nish
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
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ez2 wrote: But most of the sites I sign up for require an email address anyway, what am I missing? True, but most of us give a dummy email ID there, don't we? Nish
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
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I for one don't want to see my email address all over this place. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Remember that there is always the danger of some nasty sites misusing our email address. Nish
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
Ok, so why not have the site authenticate via an email address and a password but allow you to enter a user name? I've seen a couple of sites that do this and it works great since I can choose my preferred user name while at the same time having a standard (email address I always use) for my authentication.
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ez2 wrote: But most of the sites I sign up for require an email address anyway, what am I missing? True, but most of us give a dummy email ID there, don't we? Nish
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: True, but most of us give a dummy email ID there, don't we? My favorite one, blastoff@nasa.gov :-D James Simplicity Rules!
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Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Others use a username and password. Personally I hate using a username and password combination because often times the username I have choosen is already taken. I'm signed up for so many websites that I can't remember my username for many of them (at least until I started using one of those password savers). Anyway, why do some sites use username and password. Is there any specific reason for this? It's a pet peeve of mine.
ez2 wrote: Just wondering, some sites allow you to use your email address and a password for signing on to a web site. Mainly e-mail, but I much prefer MS Passport. Cheers Mike Johannesburg, South Africa
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Remember that there is always the danger of some nasty sites misusing our email address. Nish
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
I've gotten into the habit of creating disposable email addresses for signups (such as cp@... for codeproject) This was easy to do since all mails to unrecognised addresses on my domain get caught by my main account That way if a site does give out my registered address to spammers, I can easily pinpoint who it was, set the email address to autoblock, and know to avoid that site in future :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!