Justin Beech

• Personal home page: http://dslreports.com

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• July 13, 1999, on The Hard Way:

  One little tip that I learned the hard way, with my (shameless plug) dslreports site, was that assigning users password automatically (to ensure they have a real email address) is a lot harder than I had imagined..
  
  First, I tried random combinations of letters and numbers. Easy! but I got emails complaining they couldnt login, so looking more closely, I found people were not seeing the difference between "l" and "1", so I took those letters out.
  
  But the complaints continued... this time it was "0" and "O".. so I took those out.
  
  Then people would type "1" instead of "i".
  
  So I took "i" out.
  
  Then i found people started using copy-paste, and they would include accidently, a leading or trailing space from my this-is-your-password email.. so I allowed spaces.
  
  This just left a few, real hard core dummies, who didnt feel that upper and lower case were important.
  So I made passwords case-ins...