Why the complicated passwords.......? The Private Message envelope.........

Well I’ll be darned!! I was typing away on an epistle and all at once it disappeared, just like the old board. So will start over again.

The password generated by the magic computer that is 12 characters long is absurd and I find it hard to believe it could not be shortened. Even Chase, Bank America, Ameritrade don’t have such complicated requirements. It seems rather odd that the generated password for a lost password does not have to have a special character. The one I got a few minutes ago was SwAUb5hSgVph. It takes 20 strokes to get it into an iphone or ipad. I understand the requirement for the 6 character password but why the 12 characters with the temporary one?
It is so much simpler to use the challenge question approach to retrieve a lost password. You answer the challenge question and the password is emailed to your email address of record. My challenge question is how many bushels does the 30000 bushel bin hold? Much simpler than getting a 12 character string that one is most likely to reset anyway.

Progress is being made and that is a big plus!!

Hardware: iPhone, iPad and Dell PC Desktop with Windows 10 and Firefox.

PS: This little gem of a mix-up has caused me a lot of grief and may have caused others the same while logging in.
My user name in my profile is D4Jim. Capital D and Capital J. However, on the web page with the avatar and title on postings it is D4jim. Small j. That has to be a system problem, that does not transfer it across. If I go to a posting and log in with that user name, (with the small j) it will not let me log in. On this board it is difficult to tell the small j from the capital J and I am sure there are some other letters in the same category. As I write this the red D4Jim is Capital J yet when I go to preview it is a lower case j. Something is not right and I wonder what will be posted.
Checking now the post is correct but the preview is not!! How about that?

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abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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Jim, for what it's worth, you can save that pw in your browser then you don't have to bother typing it in, and it doesn't matter what it is because you don't have to remember it - Firefox has that capability as do most browsers these days. I do that even with the passwords I do know. Saves butter fingers for me. For the losing the epistle thing (and I use this anywhere, not just here on the forum), for anything long I'm typing up, I type it in something like Notepad or Word because some website widgets don't retain what's been typed meaning a mistaken delete cannot be undone. Been burned by that enough times that I type it elsewhere now. I wouldn't do it for something as short as this response but a one pager for sure.

Neil - congrats on 5k posts.