Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 01:53:45PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> The 7 rules listed in this URL seem utterly bizarre to me. >> >> The first is "Don't use a palindrome" >> which makes me wonder if the author knows the meaning of this word. >> I suspect he/she thinks it means "a known word backwards". > That's what I would call it (or phrase or sequence of numbers.) When I > read your post, I thought I was missing something, but some cursory > googling indicates that I'm right. What am I missing here? I don't follow your meaning. Do you think yraM is a palindrome? Merriam-Webster (online) a word, verse, or sentence (as “Able was I ere I saw Elba”) or a number (as 1881) that reads the same backward or forward I can't believe many people use palindromes as passwords. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos