Re: how do I get a flippin' gmail account?

On 4/23/05, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> 
> It was a problem with the password, I think. 

So I was right! :)


Just as they want you to have an original username they want you to have an 
> original password.

Well, not quite. You have to have an original username so that they know who 
to deliver the email to; if there were two fred@gmail.com's, that'd be a 
problem. But I sincerely doubt that they care about the uniqueness of the 
password.

What they probably care about is the crackability of the password. If it's 
just letters, even if they're spelling Teonaht instead of English, it's much 
more crackable than if it also has other things like numbers and 
punctuation, or at least spaces. It's probably the fact that you picked a 
phrase rather than a single word that let you in finally. 

I'm sure there's a link on the page where you pick your password telling you 
what is and is not acceptable...



-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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