From: "Robert Comer" 

I usually use an acronym a word and a digit or special character, but no
mixed case stuff...

- Bob Comer


"Judy Folkenberg"  wrote in
message news:3FCBF179.6DB192AB{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov...
> Just curious.  How do you all decide on passwords?  The reason I ask is
> that the Library just changed mail software (to much gnashing of the
> teeth--we're being forced to use Outlook and no one is happy) so we've
> all been assigned passwords until we come up with our own.  Mine is a
> mixture of small letters and caps mixed with numbers.  I hate it as I
> can never remember it.
>
> Do you have certain "systems" ie wife and kids's names, birthdates or
> adaptations of such, or taking such things as botanical terms or
> zoological terms (or the terms in any kind of exising system) and
> adapting them.  Or do you try and make passwords as complicated as
> possible, ie mixing keyboard symbols with numbers and letters?
>
> I'm certainly not giving out my secrets when it comes to choosing
> passwords!
>
> Judy
>

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