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Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 01:50 AM EDT:
"When you post to a subject thread, it consults the login function directly to determine whether you can post. This function will check that you have entered the correct password for your userid, and it will create a session for you. But whether or not that session stays around will not affect whether you get to post your comment to a subject thread."

That suits me fine, as I said I have no problem putting in my ID and password over and over again. It's what I'm used to, and it would be just as acceptable to still be able to do that with comments about a page.

"Make sure you can accept cookies from this site."

The ability to block cookies has been around for over a decade and over that time increasing number ofg internet users, have adopted a policy of rejecting all cookies. It is a backward step to remove a syatem not requiring cookies, and while I can see the advantages to your offering an alternative system for people who are still afccepting them it sghoukd be just that - an alternative along the more widely functioning existing system. I would suggest displaying the "sign in" page only when a user selects it directly, and otherwise assuming that they are still using the tried and tested system of entering details for each comment being added - or edited, something else that I cannot do with any of my existing comments or messages. There are bound to be other contributors in my situation; there are certainly others who have not posted comments recently.

I would appreciate the views of CVP editors generally on this matter.


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