Johnny/Donovan: 

Newshare Corp. will release for alpha later this month server software 
which, when implemented with our backend system of validation servers, will 
do exactly as you suggest below -- a single "home base" id/password 
registration for users which "validates" for entry to all other 
Clickshare(sm)-enhanced sites. For a mock demonstration of this facility see:

http://www.newshare.com/Clickshare/overview.html

Let us know if you'd like additional information.

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At 12:04 PM 8/12/95 -0400, JohnnyHar@aol.com wrote:

>An opportunity has arisen - the registration process isn't that big of a deal
>once for one area - but when you repeat the process by 10 or 20 - how is one
>to keep up with all the userids and passwords?  Fortunately, I have used the
>same for each - but that proposes a security threat potential.  Now what
>would happen if a site requires a change of passwords every 6 months or
>something - how to keep up with that?  Wouldn't a one stop area for passwrods
>be a welcome happening from a consumer standpoint.  Might be nice to offer a
>signup form for the sites on the Web and then for the convenience.  In many
>ways this is the good thing about AOL - I sign on once and then have free
>reign to whatever they offer.  
>
>Now where does the money come from?  Well two options 1) charge the user a
>small fee to administrate the passwords and site lists or 2) offer that for
>free and then sell the names (with user permission) of the visitors to the
>site owners.
>
>Would anyone please like to comment or perhaps pursue this venture further
>with me?  
>
>John Harper
>
>It was said by dwhite@iii.net 
>
>"I register only if that's the only way to get to the information. Not 
>because I have anything against registration (I basically have no 
>principles) but because I'm too lazy to play those kinds of games. 
>
>So I only register if the site is closed. And I register if there's 
>some kind of a raffle going on. I may be lazy, but I've never passed 
>up a freebie in my life.
>
>My biggest beef with current approaches to registration is the 
>corresponding requirement to remember a password. I don't have much 
>problem remembering my name, and the sequence of variations that 
>spring immediately to mind late at night, but I'll be damned if I can 
>ever remember the right password to match the name. So I don't have 
>much problem with the initial visit to a registration site, it's the 
>subsequent efforts to re-enter that cause me no end of grief."
>
>
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