[Liverpool] Liverpool LUG October meeting - Wed Oct 3rd from 7pm

[David Hughes]

I subscribe to a number of Mailman lists from different sources, and 
this appears to be fairly standard behaviour - at the start of every 
month I get several emails reminding me of lists that I belong to - 
including things like the freebsd-announce list (and they have something 
of a reputation for being highly security conscious).

I suspect the rationale of sending out the password in plain text is 
that it's reckoned to be of very little use to anyone else; the worst 
thing that anyone could do if they intercepted your password for a given 
mailing list would be to unsubscribe you, or arrange for you to receive 
your messages in daily digests. (Unless you've used the same password 
for other accounts. I've always just let the mailman program assign me a 
random password.)

Cheers,

David

On 01/10/12 14:44, Dan Lynch wrote:
> That is strange behaviour indeed. To have it email passwords out in
> plain text with membership reminders. I will post to the lugmaster list
> and ask about this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan