[buug] weak.org mailing list memberships reminder (fwd)

Jon McClintock jammer at weak.org
Tue Aug 1 09:50:35 PDT 2000


On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:09:26PM -0400, Nicolai Rosen wrote:
> Uh, why? This is obnoxious. I don't appreciate having passwords
> (especially my passwords) e-mailed to me in plain text monthly. I often
> check my e-mail in public places and somebody with a packet sniffer on the
> first of the month could get all of our passwords. In addition, it's
> completely superfluous. The url of a site we can log in, get our passwords
> mailed to us, change membership info, etc.. at the bottom of each e-mail
> would be sufficient.

Blah. Seeing as some people are smart enough to _forward_ their list
password to the mailing list, I've disabled this option.

-Jon





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