Expired Password: 12648 Days Old

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In summary, a user received a message stating their password was expired, but it was just a routine reminder to update passwords twice a year. The user's post was lost while resetting their password, but they assure others it was not a significant loss. There was also discussion about a strange email received around the same time. One user may have exaggerated the quality of their lost post, and there was some friendly banter between users. Overall, nothing serious happened.
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Gara
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Weird Message !?

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

Ohnoes?
 
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WOW ! PF in the swingin' sixties ??
 
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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. :smile:

- Warren
 
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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. :grumpy: 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. :approve: :biggrin: :tongue2:
 
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Moonbear said:
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. :grumpy: 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. :approve: :biggrin: :tongue2:
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 :wink: :tongue2:
 
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Moonbear said:
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. :grumpy: 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. :approve: :biggrin: :tongue2:

Ah shoot, sorry moonbear I should have warned everyone first. :frown:
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
Ah shoot, sorry moonbear I should have warned everyone first. :frown:

Nereid said:
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

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

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 :eek: :rofl: Probably just my cyber-guardian angel keeping me from embarrassing myself by posting it. :redface:
 
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Moonbear said:
It was only for the general discussion forum anyway.
Hmmph! :grumpy:

(Moonbear knows I love her) :smile:
 
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Evo said:
Hmmph! :grumpy:

(Moonbear knows I love her) :smile:

:frown: I didn't mean to insult Evo :cry: 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.
 

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