#95627
02/14/2003 9:06 PM
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Why would someone be requesting a temporary password for Wordwind here? What's going on? I just received this message at my email address:
"Someone from the ip address '172.141.211.243' requested a temporary password for the Username 'wordwind' for the website 'AWADtalk'. This is a temporary password that can be used if you have forgotten your original password. If you did not request this, please ignore this message."
Well, I didn't request it. So what gives? Who requested it? And since I was told to ignore the message, I still feel uneasy. Can this person access my account?
Please inform,
WW
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#95628
02/14/2003 9:11 PM
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Dear WW: I had the same thing happen to me about six months ago. I ignored it, and
nothing happened that I know of.
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#95629
02/14/2003 9:17 PM
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I still want to know what's going on, wwh. You ignored it; nothing happened. That's good as long as nothing really happened. But how would we know whether someone had accessed our account?
Jackie, can you comment on this?
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#95630
02/14/2003 10:40 PM
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Relax, Dub' The temp password is sent only to you. Someone else requested it. It only gets sent to the email address you used when you registered. Whoever requested it has learned nothing except that this stunt doesn't work.
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#95631
02/14/2003 10:40 PM
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I got it today, too. I'm interested in knowing how many of us here received this same message, WW. Not a comfortable feeling, I agree. A little show of hands, please:
Anyone else?
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#95632
02/14/2003 10:52 PM
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Can this address: '172.141.211.243' ...be traced?
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#95633
02/15/2003 2:45 AM
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I just got another message like WW's, with same address. I will just ignore it. Bill
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#95634
02/15/2003 4:31 AM
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Can this address: '172.141.211.243' ...be traced?
Query: 172.141.211.243
OrgName: America Online
OrgID: AOL
Address: 8619 Westwood Center Drive
Address: Suite 200
City: Vienna
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 22182
Country: US
NetRange: 172.128.0.0 - 172.191.255.255 CIDR: 172.128.0.0/10
NetName: AOL-172BLK
NetHandle: NET-172-128-0-0-1
Parent: NET-172-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: DAHA-01.NS.AOL.COM
NameServer: DAHA-02.NS.AOL.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 2000-03-24
Updated: 2002-08-09
this doesn't mean a whole lot to me, but maybe someone else can help fill in the holes...
formerly known as etaoin...
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#95635
02/15/2003 1:27 PM
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Faldage and I also received one apiece. 'AOL' rings a bell. Yeah, just ignore it. This has happened before, and amounted to nothing but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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#95636
02/15/2003 11:06 PM
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I got one, also; am asking Anu for explanation.
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#95637
02/15/2003 11:15 PM
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I asked webmaster for an explanation six months ago, but got nothing.
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#95638
02/15/2003 11:17 PM
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Oh my goodness, he already answered! He says someone is playing a prank, like ringing a doorbell, and that there is "no cause to worry".
A new thought: I wonder if there are other boards that had the same thing happen? Somebody getting their jollies out of hacking, or testing their program-writing skills?
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#95639
02/15/2003 11:38 PM
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Thanks, Jackie, for writing to Anu.
WW
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#95640
02/15/2003 11:41 PM
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Somebody getting their jollies out of hacking, or testing their program-writing skills?
That happens regularly in HTML-based chat rooms. But this is an example of neither. There's a button right up front on the login page: "I forgot my password." I clicked on it and Viola's your aunt! A temporary password message, identical to the one may of us received (except it features my own IP#) was immediately mailed to me.
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#95641
02/15/2003 11:43 PM
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#95642
02/16/2003 12:46 AM
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Viola's not my Aunt! 
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#95643
02/16/2003 1:26 AM
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#95644
02/16/2003 1:36 AM
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Hey!...my Aunt Being happens to be a very nice lady! You leave her alone! 
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#95645
02/16/2003 2:42 AM
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my Aunt Being
Well, at least your aunt's not Flo.
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#95646
02/16/2003 2:46 AM
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I think we've all been hanging around musick too much! 
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#95647
02/16/2003 6:58 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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This appears to have degenerated to the level of Mayberry. Aunt Being is very appropriate. Lincoln Park isn't!
- Pfranz
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#95648
02/16/2003 9:53 AM
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enthusiast
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I can't help noticing the AOL link - I use an AOL server (it's terrible), perhaps that's why I didn't get a message... or perhaps it's some kinda AOL marketing scam to sign people up to err... something that didn't really work because their 'find the gullible idiot' poll broke down? (I know that that made no sense - please ignore it  ) And the real purpose of my post:Hey! What's wrong with my Aunt Flo??
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#95649
02/16/2003 1:49 PM
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She ain't living up to her name - missed a full stop
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#95650
02/16/2003 2:17 PM
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Oooh, Dr Bill. You bad. Pulled off a bilingual pun in one language.
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#95651
02/16/2003 10:08 PM
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A little late past the post, but anyway....
I got a similar msg many moons ago. Not sure if the originating address was the same. I reckoned it was, as Asp said, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It IS a tad unsettling, but it doesn't work as a means of breaking into AWADtalk under a regular "poster's" handle.
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#95652
02/17/2003 3:42 PM
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I think we've all been hanging around musick too much!
My secret plan of affectation has manifested...
... now, if you'd only make *sense of it (for my sake if not for your own)(eg)
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#95653
02/17/2003 3:50 PM
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make *sense of it I didn't know you liked Split Enz!  FWIW, I sent off a complaint of possible abuse to AOL. Hopefully they'll respond.
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