On Aug 01, 2012, at 12:26 PM, W. Prins wrote: >Ran into this today, believe it or not, on the Python mailing list. I'm >surprised that bad security is justified by referring to bad policy >documentation... as if the fact that a bad idea written as policy on a >subscription page makes it suddenly a good idea or beyond criticism. >IMHO Users should not be told to "follow instructions" to compensate for >lax handling of password data, no matter how trivial it may seem.
You can turn off password reminders in your own preferences. Password reminders are removed in Mailman 3 and passwords are not stored in the clear in Mailman 3. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/265179 Title: Security hole: passwords mailed in clear To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/265179/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailman-coders mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-coders
