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Here's an interesting take. They should have allowed you to enter whatever you think your password was.
They only had to address it when RESETTING it.
And quite frankly, they should be hashing your password to death, with enough salt to raise the blood pressure of a cadaver!
hash = GoodHashOf( PASSWORD, username, date account created, date password was set, password, USERID);
Where every comma is really + "SALT" + and each repetition is different salt. And should be userID dependent.
FINALLY, their site should have only mentioned the extra characters are no longer allowed on a password failed page!
I really hate when people don't allow ";" (I understand the SQL Injection filters. But if you are not using bind variables, you should be beaten and shot and beaten again... LOL
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I restrict nothing, nor require digits or special chars, but most of all I don't limit length, and encourage my users to use a long, easy to remember pass-phrase.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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"Due to a mix up alarm made my breakfast sweeter" (9)
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MARMELADE!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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you won't leave me any chance to win 
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Oh c**k.
I read it, thought "Marmalade" and posted instinctively.
I could be wrong, though?
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I just looked, and in fact I am wrong - over to you, if you are quick!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Nah, I don't do drugs ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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...anymore?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Indeedy! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Well - somebody cannot spell so you are in with a chance...
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MARMALADE ?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Yes please, I am quite peckish and it would make a nice brunch.
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Yay! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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The way GRIFF wrote it is the way we Dutch write it. So I thought it was done....
Tomorrow 'kun je de borst nat maken' (Dutch saying: You have to make your chest wet -> hard times ahead) you have to find out artist and songtitle!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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@DuncanEdwardsJones
Where's the CCC?
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Too much excitement... it's on its way...
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First time I've used it "in anger".
I got an email with an attached PDF about an Amazon order and no detail of what I ordered.
I'm a suspicious chap, so save the attachment, open the Sandbox, copy'n'paste the file, open it - and it's about an order I made alright. But from FleaBay ... Hmmm.
Could be a mistake, I guess ... but it's going to Quarantine anyway.
Sandbox works. Much smaller footprint than a full VM, and doesn't require an extra OS licence. Nice.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and doesn't require an extra OS licence
Would you really worry about that, in this sort of context?
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Yes. I'm of that mind set: if you use something, you give recompense. Beer, food, chocolate, ... for friends who help; money for software writers. I even buy shareware I use once I've decided it's worth while using.
If nothing else, it encourages those who produce good stuff to produce more!
And a VM needs an OS - in this case a OS compatible with the Nasty Stuff - if any - to identify it's actual nastiness. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yes. I'm of that mind set: if you use something, you give recompense.
But this is Windows we're talking about - which gives us all so much grief, surely it balances out? (and then some...)
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Windows has been good to me, over the years.
I remember the fun of getting a network (co-ax, in those days, none of yer fancy RJ45 stuff) up and running; keeping it that way before Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Suddenly, you could just plug it in, install Windows and share files, and printers. And it's got better - with a number of retrograde steps - over the years. Even Win 10 isn't bad - ugly, schizophrenic, greedy as hell, clumsy at times, yes: but not actually bad - it's solid, competent, and has a huge supply of damn good software.
Paying for it used to be the price for that, and it was worth paying (with a few exceptions I managed to avoid). A VM? I'd need another license, and I only have Win7 ones to spare.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's solid, competent, and has a huge supply of damn good software.
I take it you're not talking about the Microsoft store. 
(if you are, you might want to let them know, I'm sure they'll be as surprised as anyone else)
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