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
Dear WW: I had the same thing happen to me about six months ago. I ignored it, and
nothing happened that I know of.
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?
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.
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?
Can this address: '172.141.211.243' ...be traced?
I just got another message like WW's, with same address. I will just ignore it. Bill
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...
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.
I got one, also; am asking Anu for explanation.
I asked webmaster for an explanation six months ago, but got nothing.
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?
Thanks, Jackie, for writing to Anu.
WW
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.
Viola's not
my Aunt!
Hey!...my Aunt Being happens to be a very nice lady! You leave her alone!
my Aunt Being
Well, at least your aunt's not Flo.
I think we've all been hanging around musick too much!
This appears to have degenerated to the level of Mayberry. Aunt Being is very appropriate. Lincoln Park isn't!
- Pfranz
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??
She ain't living up to her name - missed a full stop
Oooh, Dr Bill. You bad. Pulled off a bilingual pun in one language.
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.
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)
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.