"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com wrote in message news:4268C314.6060602@pobox.com...
Phil Boswell wrote:
Liking the new features, but the account creation totally boggled me. I entered my name, and my favourite "temporary" password, and clicked "Create new account". Without warning me, it sent me an email with a *new* password.
The confusing thing is that it would seem that the system remembered the password I had entered previously, so when I tried to change it from the gash password from the email, it complained...I only found out by trial and error that my original password was operational.
Is this actually a change in policy or is this just how the test system is set up?
It's supposed to be an e-mail verification system, but it's pretty badly broken and needs to be replaced with one that actually works in a reasonable manner.
Oh, it worked fine...it was simply that it failed to tell me properly that my original password would be restored just as soon as the garbage one had been used to verify the account creation.
The system seems to work OK, it just needs better instructions. Obviously there might be more technical problems underneath the bonnet :-)