On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:55:52 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 12/22/2015 07:18 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
I agree that it can be a bit unnerving. You never specifically submitted
those answers like you do at other websites where you build your own
questionnaire by using the drop-down menu to pick a question (e.g. "What
is the first name of your Best Man?")

I did one of those recently and it was a pain in the butt. Where were
you born? Wrong! it has to be at least six characters. What street did
you live on? Wrong! It has to be at least six characters. There were a
couple more like that.

Some time ago when sites first started with that I registered and
promptly forgot my password. I think it was AT&T. Okay, do the I forgot
my password thing.

"What is the answer to your secret question?" Oh, come on, at least
give me a clue to what the frigging secret question was. I can't
remember the password and I'm supposed to remember which stupid secret
question I picked?

Early on I decided not to use my full name on the net unless I was
spending money and I had to pay (or online banking or medicine), so
when I signed up for yahoo email, I lied about my birthday. Then I
forgot my password and couldn't remember the phony birthday either.

I was stuck and had to make another yahoo account. I guess this was
20 years ago. Every few years I write to my old address to see if it
bounces. And if it does I try to sign up for it again because I
liked the name better. IIRC it bounced but I still coudn't sign up
for that address. I just wrote my old address again.

Now I take the email they send me saying I'm enrolled in something and
I copy in the userid and password and maybe other stuff, and I store
all of them in a mailbox, in alphabetical order. Before I go out of
town I copy the mailbox to my laptop OR I go through and copy to paper
the small number I really need. I also take snapshorts of the
password pages of Firefox settings and insert them in the mailbox.