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To: wlcnyc who wrote (531)7/4/2000 1:08:39 AM
From: SI Bob  Read Replies (4) of 4890
 
The first occurrence was at about 11:00PM Eastern on Thursday about 20 minutes after the site was brought up on Oracle for the first time. When previewing a thread, login names were being shown rather than aliases. It was fixed in about 5 minutes.

The same thing happened again Friday morning. I don't remember the time. It was fixed in about 10-15 minutes.

Later on Friday, it was noticed that the "Discussion" page was displaying login names instead of aliases on the right side of the screen where about 5 posts are shown. That one took longer to fix because I was unclear where it was so I was slow in reporting it.

As for the significance or lack of it that was mentioned here earlier, I considered it very significant. Not only do some people use their real name for a loginID, the site is set up so that someone would have to correctly guess both the loginID and password of a person to gain access to their account. We used to have problems with this (like when someone used "silicon" for their loginID and "investor" for their password).

My login name is now public knowledge, so half of that battle is won for anyone inclined to try for my account. My password's too cryptic for that, but that's not necessarily true for everyone.
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