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echo: barktopus
to: Judy Folkenberg
from: Ron Stodden
date: 2003-12-02 14:49:34
subject: Re: Passwords

From: Ron Stodden 

One good tip is to use the licence number of one of the cars you used to
have years ago.   It has mixed letters and numerals and does not
resemble any known word.     You won't ever forget it and nobody else
that knew you then will ever remember it.

Judy Folkenberg wrote:
> 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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