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Old Apr 21, 2003 | 6:37 pm
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Catman
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Passwords not required for Chat?
I went to chat tonight and noticed that for the first time all I needed was my "nickname" to get in.

No password required.

IMHO this could be a dangerous thing:

*People can log in under ANY FLYERTALK IDENTITY Then under that name could do whatever... perhaps harm? LIke someone can go on as me and start attacking other people.

*People could log in with ANY NICKNAME even if you are not registered at Flyertalk. I was able to log in with the cats names, even as Santa Claus.

HOw do you all feel about this?

Personally, please Bring back the Password requirement

THank you.
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Old Apr 21, 2003 | 6:55 pm
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Perhaps it's releated to the upcoming public (Aeroplan) chat? For these chats they often turn off the password check...
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Old Apr 21, 2003 | 7:43 pm
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Wow, didn't realize that was the reason.

Thanks Scott C.

But maybe hold off on the no password stuff till the day of the event.

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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 12:50 am
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IIRC last time they had a scheduled chat there were problems with the chat interface. As ScottC mentioned they were probably just checking the moderated chat interface and forgot to swtich it back.
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 7:46 am
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Nope -- we haven't been playing with the settings. When I get into the office I'll check to see what's up.
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 9:03 am
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It was an unusually interesting chat. We had Gordon Bethune, Sir Freddy Laker, Kate Hudson, and Brittany Spears. OK, Yaz and Sir Edwin Landseer also came by.
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 9:07 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SanDiego1K:
It was an unusually interesting chat. We had Gordon Bethune, Sir Freddy Laker, Kate Hudson, and Brittany Spears. OK, Yaz and Sir Edwin Landseer also came by. </font>
I was also disturbed to hear *I* was in chat
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 12:15 pm
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Some very lively discussions last night in chat. We had some very interesting first time guests.
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