I register the users and the passwords with QUITE (they actually do know
the password, they have to use it to log on to my members only area),
technically they would never have to know the password if I used a
different password than the one they currently use, which I assign.

Ronnie Streff
Communications & Technology Specialist
American Medical Writers Association
40 West Gude Drive Suite 101
Rockville,  MD  20850-1192
301.294.5303 / 301.294.9006 fax
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-----Original Message-----
From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Winship
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:09 PM
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Subject: Re: auto sign in from Web site

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Ronnie Streff wrote:
> I'm not wanting to bypass the login, I'm trying to automate it so that
> they don't have to key it in (or even know it) themselves.

But they have to know it, they have to get it themselves, for
themselves.
The password isn't for the list, it is for an address (hopefully the
same
as the subscriber's subscribed list address), for a LISTSERV site.
Each subscriber has to register his own password.  How can he not know
it?

> currently log in to our members only area using a last name and a
member
> number, the log in for the list being different would require them to
> use some brain power they don't have in excess.

Memeber name and number.  That doesn't sound like LISTSERV, but like
your
creation.  Yes, I can understand how there could be some confusion
there,
but that is caused, I think higly likely, because LISTSERV does things
a particular way, which doesn't have to do with "member numbers".

If the list is "private", why do you need a "members only" area with
member numbers?  I suspect that this is a website other than that where
the archives reside.  Is that correct?

Douglas Winship   [log in to unmask]