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

[Tony Godshall]

Mailman tells you not to use a valuable password when you sign up.  It's
not really a password it's more like a token. Maybe they should change the
terminology.




On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 3:47 PM Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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