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

[John Church]

I didn't realise myself until now but this is taken from the subscription page:

"You may enter a
	    privacy password below. This provides only mild security,
	    but should prevent others from messing with your
	    subscription. Do not use a valuable password as it will occasionally be emailed back to you in cleartext."

I suppose I just need to be a bit more careful in future. Just changed my password to something disposable.




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 From: "Hartley, Daniel" <D.R.T.Hartley at liverpool.ac.uk>
To: Liverpool Linux User Group <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> 
Sent: Monday, 1 October 2012, 15:00
Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Liverpool LUG October meeting - Wed Oct 3rd from 7pm
 
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.

Daniel

dhartley.net

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From: liverpool-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [liverpool-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] on behalf of David Hughes [dghughes82 at googlemail.com]
Sent: 01 October 2012 14:58
To: Liverpool Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Liverpool LUG October meeting - Wed Oct 3rd from 7pm

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


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