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		lukeschlather on Dec 13, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why don't we expire passwords on the web? Email is not universally reliable enough for that to be practical. If you leave browsers logged in, it might be a little more so, but still, I want to log in now. Not in a half an hour after the email works its way through my company's spam filters.

arethuza on Dec 13, 2010 [–]

If your emails take 30 minutes to arrive then there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

lukeschlather on Dec 13, 2010 | | [–]

I guarantee a considerable fraction of your users are using mail servers that have something seriously wrong somewhere.

bensummers on Dec 13, 2010 | | [–]

Or the server uses greylisting as part of their spam prevention mechanisms.

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