RE: Euphemisms and alternate keywords for "Recover"

[mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com]

Thanks to Michelle and Doug for some useful suggestions.
Now, as for Susan W. Gallagher [mailto:sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net] 
who helped out with:

> "Unlock" is good; so is "lock". I'd also use "access", 
> "login", "forgot" (or "forget" maybe), "password", and 
> "backdoor" for starters. 
> 
> I'd also be sorely tempted to insert a couple of four-letter 
> expletives, but depending on the product, you prolly couldn't 
> get away with it. Imagine the scenario: User tries 
> everything, can't get into the system. Opens help. Mind's a 
> blank. In ultimate frustration, user types f*** and bangs 
> down on the Enter key. Help system responds with, "To access 
> the system after forgetting your password..."
 
Some good ones there, too. I'll throw them all in.
Except "backdoor". That's a real no-no in a security and 
crypto context.  Hell, my keyboard began to heat up in 
just the two seconds it took me to type it here...
Do I smell brimstone?

I actually did include "oh no" as an index item.  :-)
Seemed relatively harmless, yet apropos.

As for the "bad" words, I'm using RoboHelp X5, writing 
WebHelp...   Obviously, I can't put politically unacceptable 
words into the index terms, because those show up as a displayed list.

What about the search terms?  Do the experts think that it 
would be safe to include a whole s**tload of marginal terms 
in the html of the page (as comments?) as some flavor of 
non-displayed text?  I don't mind taking my chances with vulgarisms 
if a person would need to really go out of their way to find them.
I just don't want to include them in a way that they could be 
accidentally displayed without the user having to type them first.

If they are already at the Recover help page and choose 
"Show source", well I consider them to be "jes askin' fer it".

kevin

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