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

Nicolai Rosen nick at netaxs.com
Tue Aug 1 09:57:59 PDT 2000


On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Jon McClintock wrote:
> 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

If anybody wants to try changing my info using the password XXXXXXXXXX,
they're welcomed to go ahead and try :)

Nicolai Rosen, nick at netaxs.com
http://www.netaxs.com/~nick/

everyone i know
goes away in the end
	-nine inch nails, hurt





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