Clare Redstone writes: > How insecure? Are they more vulnerable than a members-only Yahoo or Google > group for example?
Probably a little more vulnerable, for social reasons. Your members- only password at Yahoo/Google is your personal mail password; people probably protect those fairly well (although often enough dinner guests can read them off the post-in on the monitory in the corner ;-). Mailman subscription passwords tend to be easier to guess. > Are they protected from search engines? Yes. > Would someone have to make a deliberate effort to hack in to read > the archive Yes. > or could someone come across it by accident, say through a search > engine? No. > I think if it would take someone with some technical knowledge, > deliberately looking for it to get in, that would be safe enough. Stealing a password doesn't take technical knowledge, but it clearly takes evil intent. > One thing I'm suggesting is that people could set up and email > account with a nickname so they wouldn't so easily be identified. This is a good idea any time you want to preserve a modicum of privacy on the 'net. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
