Re: Bad mailing list practice?

[David Frascone <dave at frascone.com>]

Mailman passwords are always sent in the clear, and are considered to
be insecure.  I believe there was verbage about that when I got my
password.

Just my $.02 worth,


-Dave

On Wednesday, 01 Sep 2004, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> A public mailbox (accessible by anyone with an IMAP client) just received a 
> mailman reminder about a subscription to this list. That message contained 
> a clear-text password (actually several in this case). Whilst mailman does 
> have an option for subscribers to turn off the password reminder I think it 
> is bad practice to have that default to 'on' for new subscribers given that 
> mailing lists are often piped into public archives.
> 
> -- 
> Cyrus Daboo
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David Frascone

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