I seem to recall this was changed in response to the fact that the password is included in clear text. On Thu, 5 Jun 2014, t.p. wrote: > I used to get a reminder once a month of the mailing lists to which I am > subscribed, such as this one, but, around the time of IETF89, this > stopped working. I see that the option on every one of the lists to > which I am subscribed has been reset to not send a reminder, not > something that I would intentionally ever do > > Is this a change of policy, an announcement somewhere that I missed? > > I note that the IETF web site page on Email Lists still talks of monthly > reminders without even mentioning that they are optional, which suggests > to me that it is not the policy that has changed. > > Tom Petch >