Mailman passwords are always sent in the clear, and are considered to be insecure. I believe there was verbage about that when I got my password. Just my $.02 worth, -Dave On Wednesday, 01 Sep 2004, Cyrus Daboo wrote: > A public mailbox (accessible by anyone with an IMAP client) just received a > mailman reminder about a subscription to this list. That message contained > a clear-text password (actually several in this case). Whilst mailman does > have an option for subscribers to turn off the password reminder I think it > is bad practice to have that default to 'on' for new subscribers given that > mailing lists are often piped into public archives. > > -- > Cyrus Daboo > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- David Frascone Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the ark. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf