Weird Message !?

Gara

"Your password is 12648 days old, and has therefore expired"

Ohnoes?

Gokul43201

WOW ! PF in the swingin' sixties ??

chroot

It just means that you've never changed your password. The field that contains the date of your last password change is "0," which is 1 Jan 1970 in UNIX. We've decided to have users change their passwords twice a year just to make sure email addresses stay current. You can rest easy, nothing is wrong.

- Warren

Moonbear

Yeah, except I got that message last night as I hit submit reply, and my post vaporized into cyberspace while I was fiddling around resetting my password. Now the world will never know the wonderful pearls of wisdom I had typed out to share last night, and I must say, it was my most eloquent, thoughtful, insightful, revelation of earth-shattering news ever! But you'll just have to take my word for it now.

Nereid

Strange, I got one of those annoying 'chain mail' emails about the same time ... except it was pure gibberish (apart from 'moc.smuroFscisyhP@raebnooM' in the "From:" field) ... I'm sure it was *completely, totally, absolutely* unrelated

Greg Bernhardt

Ah shoot, sorry moonbear I should have warned everyone first.

Moonbear

Um...I might have exaggerated just a wee bit about the quality of that zapped post.

It was only for the general discussion forum anyway. It's my fault for writing a post so long it took 34 years to compose Probably just my cyber-guardian angel keeping me from embarrassing myself by posting it.

Evo

Hmmph!

(Moonbear knows I love her)

Moonbear

I didn't mean to insult Evo But she knows what I meant (I hope). It wasn't a post that involved tracking down quotes from 6 different references with links to the supporting literature, which would have really frustrated me had I lost something that required so much effort. Then again, I usually compose those posts in textedit first since they are quite involved and include a lot of copying and pasting of things I wouldn't want to lose before completing the message.