RE: [ROOT] New RootTalk forum...

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 19:51:39 MEST


Hi Valery,

  this is for you to remember and store somewhere. If you want you can
at anytime change the passwd again via the "Profile" menu.

Cheers, Fons.


On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 19:43, Valeri Fine wrote:
> Hello Fons,
> The forum looks great.
> 
> However I am slightly confused with the plain text password your
> "Welcome"
> mail bears.
> 
> Is it possible to exclude the password from the "Welcome" message?
> 
> The message says "it is encrypted" and "cannot be retrieved" by ROOT
> team.
> On other hand the password was sent as a plain text and it can be
> recorded elsewhere world-wide this way and retrieved over there :-)
> 
> Even though you warned us that we should memorize the password I have to
> admit we may have it forgotten. What one should do then?
> 
>      Thank you, Valeri
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
> [mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]
> > On Behalf Of Fons Rademakers
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:59 PM
> > To: roottalk
> > Subject: [ROOT] New RootTalk forum...
> > 
> > Dear Rooters,
> > 
> >   this mail is to announce the opening of the new "RootTalk Forum".
> > 
> > Although we are in the process of installing spamassassin to reduce
> the
> > amount of spam sent to the roottalk mailing list, we now also have
> > created a RootTalk Forum. We believe that the model offered by a forum
> > scales better with a growing user community than a mailing list. A
> > mailing list pushes information to a large number of people (> 1000
> for
> > roottalk) which is a considerable waste, especially if many people are
> > mostly interested in the answers to their own questions. With a forum,
> > on the other hand, the user pulls only the information he needs when
> he
> > needs it. In addition a forum allows easy creation of sub-forums,
> better
> > browsing, threads that can always be added to or updated, etc.
> > 
> > The ROOT team will do its best to animate the forum like we are
> > animating the mailing list and for the time being the two will
> co-exist.
> > If you subscribe to the forum, feel free to un-subscribe from the
> > mailing list to reduce the load on our mailing system.
> > 
> > The forum is available at http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/. There is also a
> > link to it from the left column on the ROOT home page.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, Fons.
> > 
> > --
> > Org:    CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
> > Mail:   1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
> > E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch              Phone: +41 22 7679248
> > WWW:    http://www.rademakers.org/fons/      Fax:   +41 22 7679480
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Mail:   1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch              Phone: +41 22 7679248
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