Re: e-mail password reminders discontinued

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---- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Wouters" <paul@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "tom petch" <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "IETF" <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 3:51 PM
On Tue, 19 May 2015, tom petch wrote:

It's a shame. The value of the reminder was not the password, but a confirmation that I was still subscribed to the lists that I thought that I was subscribed to, and had not been unsubscribed due to some dark art of the mailing list processes - which has happened to me on more than one occasion.

You remember which mailing lists you are on from the top of your head,
and then notice when you NOT get an email from that list on the 1st?

Your brain is clearly superior to mine :)

I very much doubt that.

I keep the previous month's reminder e-mail so when a new one arrives, I open the old and the new in two separate panes and scroll down both. Comparing two lists for equality is within the scope of even a 'bear of little brain'. This does of course rely on the mail server not rearranging the list to some supposedly superior sort order but, happily, the mail server is not tempted to do that.



Tom Petch


Paul






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