Hi Kiran, The thinking behind the design of the sign-in process was that most of the people who have registered for the list over the years have no idea what their Mailman password is. Requiring it would have been a barrier to adoption. People have too many passwords to remember as it is and I didn't want to add to the memory burden by having them create a new one. It's not like this is investment banking or anything.
The sign-in scheme mainly exists to prevent bots from easily spamming the list. The original design didn't even require an e-mail confirmation. It simply accepted whoever you said you were (just as a wordpress or blogspot blog normally would) as long as it matched the details of an existing member. That was a little too open for some people. E-mail discussion lists are inherently insecure regarding identity but the addition of a one-time confirmation process makes things seem a little more secure without being too onerous. That said, something like 95% of the people who use the website don't bother to sign in at all. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=21648 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
