[OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 14:27:36 BST 2010


On 5 August 2010 12:44, Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> One signup page, one E-Mail
>> confirmation, and then click "ok" for the OAuth page. How often does the
>> modern Internet user do that every day?
>>
> Exactly that is the problem! I have to sign-up to far too many accounts per
> day already. Risking new spam on the email, having to think of new Passwords
> and usernames, as the "security rules" make passwords incompatible and thus
> increase the chance of forgetting them.
>
> Quite often I then just say "Oh sod off! I can't be asked to go through yet
> another process of creating a new password and forgetting it again." and
> just not contribute. It is not worth going through that hassle of creating a
> new password that by the time I will use this site again I will have
> forgotten the password anyway.

Bugmenot to the rescue! :)

Oh too bad openstreetmap.org is blocked from Bugmenot,
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/openstreetmap.org
But osm.org lists five logins.

Cheers




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