[Tax-chick]

Oh. I’d never have thought of that.

[sionnsar]

It was out of desperation. I too was facing the mess of passwords, and getting concerned about the wisdom of, say, registering with a site using the same password as the e-mail account where they will "verify" my registration.

My two-rule algorithm actually broke down at work, where they now require periodic changes and won't let you use the past 7 or so passwords. But I fixed 'em, I did, I developed a third rule for these situations. *\;-)