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Showing posts with label Passwords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passwords. Show all posts

Friday, June 03, 2016

While I appreciate

that a certain streaming video company has decided to protect my account, which, they say, may have been compromised due to a breach of another website, I'm beginning to get annoyed, as they have automatically reset my password twice in the last two weeks. The first time was a minor annoyance, as I had to go use the 'forgot password' utility (even though I knew mine perfectly well) to do a further reset, and I came up with a password which is unique among all the sites AND no one outside of my family would suspect. Now I have to come up with another. :( #FirstWorldProblems

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Up late working on a computer, this time for someone else

Note to any of you making the switch from Insight to Time Warner Cable e-mail:
  1. Do not choose a password over 12 characters even though it gives you that option, because it won't let you change it later and you'll wind up on the phone with tech support for a long while.
  2. The POP and SMTP server names are both mail.twc.com--the techs don't know this, because the twc.com thing is so new.
  3. If using Outlook, you have to put your entire e-mail address in as a username in order to receive incoming mail.
It took me five hours and three techs from phone support (including one very helpful one who was a level 3, whatever that means) to figure all this out. Let me save you time. My brain has turned to mush, I've had to have two backrubs, and I am now treating myself to Taco Bell and will soon curl up in a ball and shut out the world.