[sf-lug] Anyone here had any contact with Linu xChix.org?

[Ehud Kaldor]

I'm not too familiar with Mailman, but I think the contemporary approach 
is not to have the passwords stored in clear.

and yes, LinuxChix caught my eye, but looking now it seems like all 
Mailmen do that. not good.


On 6/6/19 2:55 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Ehud Kaldor writes:
>> i am registered on it, and it seems it's saving passwords in clear, and the
>> monthly mailer daemon sends them in clear email :(
>>
>>
>> This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your linuxchix.org
>> mailing list memberships.  It includes your subscription info and how
>> to use it to change it or unsubscribe from a list.
> [ ... ]
>
> Doesn't Mailman always do that? Every Mailman list I'm on does
> things that way, and I don't even know if Mailman has any other
> way of doing things. The list page mentions that explicitly:
> https://www.linuxchix.org/content/join-our-email-lists-or-read-archives
> as do the subscription pages for each list ("Do not use a valuable
> password as it will occasionally be emailed back to you in cleartext.")
>
> Doesn't this sf-lug list do the same thing? I don't seem to
> have any saved Mailman notices for sf-lug, but svlug and balug
> (as well as a zillion other technical lists I'm on) send the same
> cleartext reminders.
>
> I don't know why Mailman does things that way, but it's definitely
> not a LinuxChix specific problem.
>
>          ...Akkana
>
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