[Sigia-l] secret question & answer

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"Cindy Alvarez" wrote:

> Exactly!  The only way the Q&A scenario can be usable is if:
> - the questions have only one possible "right" answer

Or *any* answer at all: you could be an orphan, adopted with no knowledge of
your parents' birthdays.

Or, like most people I know, you follow multiple sports and thus have
multiple favorite teams in each.

> - the questions are strongly likely to have one-word answers
> - the answers are case-insensitive
> - there are multiple options so that users aren't forced to answer a
> "false" question (i.e. first car for a non-driver)

Or that the questions must have immutable answers: your 'last' school can
change when you attend a new one or your favorite team can change, like what
happened with the Knicks for several million New Yorkers during the last
three years:-)
 
> As a user I don't mind answering questions to retrieve a password (though
> I prefer a simple 'email me my password'),

One problem with that is multiple email accounts, some of which may not
always be accessible at all times.

Ziya
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