On Thursday, December 01, 2011 3:01:58 pm Mike Orr wrote: > The server OS is old and needs to be upgraded. That will take care of > the Mailman version. Brian and I just haven't had a chance to get > together and do it. Upgrading the OS means reconfiguring Mailman and > the wiki and making sure nothing breaks. > > I'm on a couple dozen mailing lists that use Mailman, and I get > monthly password reminders from six different servers on the first of > every month. I thought everyone agreed this was the Mailman norm. I've > never heard any complaints about it until now. Of course i don't use > any high-value password for Mailman subscriptions. But we can turn it > off if most people don't want it.
As I see it this a solution in search of a problem. An upgrade would be nice and if that changes the password handling so much the better. In the meantime though I do not see any thing critically wrong with the current system. I too belong to many Mailman lists and have never had a security issue. > > I personally would like to switch to Google Groups, which has better > searching. -- Adrian Klaver [email protected]
