<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="-1">I didn't realise myself until now but this is taken from the subscription page:<br><br>"You may enter a
privacy password below. This provides only mild security,
but should prevent others from messing with your
subscription. <b>Do not use a valuable password</b> as
it will occasionally be emailed back to you in cleartext."</font><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I suppose I just need to be a bit more careful in future. Just changed my password to something disposable.<br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Hartley, Daniel" <D.R.T.Hartley@liverpool.ac.uk><br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Liverpool Linux User Group <liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 1 October 2012, 15:00<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Liverpool] Liverpool LUG October meeting - Wed Oct 3rd from 7pm<br> </font> </div> <br>Yup, I think the problem I saw is that, in my own laziness, I used my main 'password of all passwords' for the livlug list. I should be more careful in future. But the mailing list should tell people to use a unique password if this is their protocol.<br><br>Daniel<br><br>dhartley.net<br><br>________________________________________<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [<a ymailto="mailto:liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk"
href="mailto:liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] on behalf of David Hughes [<a ymailto="mailto:dghughes82@googlemail.com" href="mailto:dghughes82@googlemail.com">dghughes82@googlemail.com</a>]<br>Sent: 01 October 2012 14:58<br>To: Liverpool Linux User Group<br>Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Liverpool LUG October meeting - Wed Oct 3rd from 7pm<br><br>I subscribe to a number of Mailman lists from different sources, and<br>this appears to be fairly standard behaviour - at the start of every<br>month I get several emails reminding me of lists that I belong to -<br>including things like the freebsd-announce list (and they have something<br>of a reputation for being highly security conscious).<br><br>I suspect the rationale of sending out the password in plain text is<br>that it's reckoned to be of very little use to anyone else; the worst<br>thing that anyone could do if they intercepted your password for a
given<br>mailing list would be to unsubscribe you, or arrange for you to receive<br>your messages in daily digests. (Unless you've used the same password<br>for other accounts. I've always just let the mailman program assign me a<br>random password.)<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>David<br><br>On 01/10/12 14:44, Dan Lynch wrote:<br>> That is strange behaviour indeed. To have it email passwords out in<br>> plain text with membership reminders. I will post to the lugmaster list<br>> and ask about this.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> Dan<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Liverpool mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool"
target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Liverpool mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/liverpool</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>