http://www.hotwired.com/readfirst.html (The Risc Disc Volume 2, 10/1995)
Your Verification Number Is Not Your Password, Your Password Is Not Your
Verification Number
You should only enter your "password" in a field that asks for your
password. You should only enter your "verification number" in a field that
asks for your verification number. The easiest way to remember the
distinction between the two is that you create your password. We create the
verification number and send it to you in an email message.
The Netscape Bug
If you enter an incorrect password, Mosaic Communications Corporation's
Netscape browser ignores the error message and retries the password
request without notifying you. All you, as the user, see are two messages
at the bottom of the screen: "contacting host" and "retrieving data".
Please, if you use Netscape, and you see the messages at the
bottom of the screen described above when you try to log into
HotWired, with no progress report of a download or change in the
screen, you must quit the program and start it again. There is no
easier solution, as far as we can determine. We hope Mosaic
Communications fixes this bug soon.
The NCSA Mosaic for Windows Bug
There is a bug in the current version of NCSA Mosaic that makes it
impossible for you to create an account on HotWired. It affects any page
that has forms on it, where you are asked to type in information. This bug
also applies to Spry's Internet in a Box for Windows and AIR Mosaic, which
are both based on the NCSA Mosaic software. Until this bug is addressed in
NCSA Mosaic, Windows users should switch to Mosaic Communications
Corporation's Netscape for Windows.