Hi, Bill.

PE> PE> PE> Hmmmm, you're the only person who's ever reported this problem,
PE> PE> PE> so I've decided that you're a wanker that can't spell.
 BFN.  Paul.

PE> PE> FM> Hardly surprising, when (I assume) very few of your callers do
PE> anything
PE> PE> FM> except point, and even fewer want to leave you a message.

PE> PE> Tell that to Bill.  He seems to be under the impression that
PE> PE> the first person who reports a problem should be discounted
PE> PE> as a biassed opinion or something, rather than someone who
PE> PE> actually made the effort to report a problem.

PE> FM> Well don't slag off at me, I *did* actually report the problem.

PE> Don't tell me, tell Bill!

Hey Bill! I reported the problem! And I'm not even biased!

PE> FM> Oh, have you fixed it yet?

PE> No, I hate Maximus.

Is that because it has bugs which are hard to fix, or is it in fact
configuration options which are hard to configure?

PE> PE> FM> And, unless they point off you or use another BBS to send you a
PE> PE> message,
PE> PE> FM> they *can't* report it anyway! Catch-22!

PE> PE> Yeah, it's a problem.  Good lesson for not losing your password,
PE> PE> hey what!

PE> FM> Good lesson to not have brain-dead software, which requires different
PE> FM> passwords for an on-line session cf a point, and then requires you to
PE> FM> repeat it in a bloody .TIC file! Bloody Hell!

PE> So your pin number at Westpac and NAB are the same are they?

Wrong analogy. My pin number at Westpac is the same to access my cheque
account or any of the several credit card accounts. If I chose to I
could have it the same as ANZ (I don't use NAB at the moment), but
*that* would be analogous to choosing the same password for your and say
Sydney PCUG boards. Oh, BTW, my password is the same to access any of
the 3 PCUG boards.

PE> Considering you got to chose both passwords for the system,
PE> I have a fair idea where I apportion the blame.

Considering I haven't used the on-line one for a *long* time, and
considering that it's brain-dead to require two separate passwords to
access the same system, so do I.

PE> FM> I have absolutely no idea what password I used whenever I first logged
PE> FM> on to TML.

PE> And whose fault do you reckon that is?

The brain-dead software which requires something *different* from the
on I use every day.

PE> FM> I know exactly what my point password is, it's a meaningless
PE> FM> combination of letters very similar to Rod Speed's point name. :-)

PE> So if you took as much care with the other password as this one,
PE> you wouldn't have a problem.

If the software wasn't brain-dead, I wouldn't have a problem.

PE> FM> Actually, I just checked my "template" .TIC file -
it still had the old
PE> FM> password which you insisted I change for reasons with which I still
PE> FM> don't agree. I'm surprised your brain-dead software picked up the
PE> FM> maybebug.zip. I've updated the template.

PE> That is surprising, you normally get security failures.  I did
PE> upgrade Yatic recently (4 months ago or something) to cope with
PE> the large number of points defined (was max of 30).

Want me to try it again, with a wrong PW? Or can you test that from
there?

Hmmm, Yatic. Presumably "Yet Another..." - what does TIC stand for?

PE> PE> FM> Er, what can't I spell?

PE> PE> I can't remember.  Maybe I was talking about "Y"
for "Yell" or
PE> PE> something.  BFN.  Paul.

PE> FM> Eh? How would *you* spell "Yell"? Rebel?

PE> It was also likely a joke.  Or at least meant to be as ridiculous
PE> as Bill's claims.  BFN.  Paul.

OK, I'll laugh then. 

Regards, FIM.

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