home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.fan.cecil-adams      Fans of legendary knowitall Cecil Adams      144,831 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 143,203 of 144,831   
   Richard Hershberger to Howard   
   Re: Add This Pet Peeve to the Pile   
   03 Nov 20 07:18:31   
   
   From: rrhersh@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 8:18:20 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:   
   > I hate it when websites don't give you the option of seeing what you've   
   > typed when you're filling in a field.   
   >   
   > I get that they want to protect people who want to enter important info in   
   > the middle of an airport waiting area, but for those who are alone at home   
   > or in an office it would be nice to be able to turn off the default and see   
   > the minimum 14 character password they are forcing us to create with upper   
   > and lower case letters and at least one number and one non-alphanumeric   
   > character.   
   >   
   > Yes, there are workarounds, but it would be so much nicer to just have a   
   > "see typing" option right there.   
      
   We're doing website pet peeves?  Cool!  My current peeve is how every website   
   nowadays asks if I want them to spam me.  It would be lovely were there an   
   option to automatically answer no.   
      
   Richard Hershberger   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca