On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:58:42 -0000, gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
wrote:

In article <o3bef0thie8sd5n5moivvrdmpqefvt3nkr@4ax.com>, f/f george  <*> wrote:

 [ ... ]   you don't have
your user account ID that Berkeley sent you upon initial sign up, 

 [ ... ]

It's not the account ID, it's the password which is needed--and S@h 
never sent that out to the user without it being requested by the
user. 

Too bad most users didn't know that they needed to make the request.


Gary

I joined the search in 1999 so my memory is fuzzy but I do not
remember asking for it, I thought they just sent it as part of the
sign-up process.