Re: [Passwordsafe-devel] New Field "Email"

[Wolfgang K. <91...@gm...>]

Hi Rony

I am astounded by your experience ;) as for me the regular case when 
registering into a fancy forum is that at least 3 information data are 
required
a) user name (alias which you use as public name in the forum), b) 
password to logon and c) email address. (At some more serious fora point 
a) is still split up into "real name" and "forum nickname", just to be 
precise.) - Now a) and b) are normally required to logon into the forum 
while c) is information in the background. You still want to have c) at 
hand quickly e.g. in case you take separate communication contacts with 
the providers etc. and wish to keep some continuity in that communication.

So I'ld say the Email field makes much sense and I definitely couldn't 
work with the username field for it.

- Wolfgang

ronys wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> What I usually do in such cases is to use the 'user' field for storing the
> relevant e-mail address, since most (all?) of the time that an e-mail is
> required, this is also the required login id.
>
> Do you think this would work for you, or is a separate 'e-mail' field type
> still needed?
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Rony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Keller [mailto:91...@gm...] 
> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:57 AM
> To: pas...@li...
> Subject: [Passwordsafe-devel] New Field "Email"
>
> Hello
>
> After long time I am sitting over a new release of JPasswords. I am 
> interested in a new data field named "Email". I noticed in my own 
> practice that taking note of the email address given away is regular 
> habit when registering into some new internet site. (People usually have 
> several different addresses.) So I think a separate field with that 
> information is useful and justified. - If you follow me in this and like 
> to have this extra field within the official canon of the PWS file 
> format, I'ld kindly ask you to render a corresponding field value and 
> update documentation. Otherwise I'll be using a "private" field.
>
> Cheers!
> - Wolfgang
>
>