[OSM-talk] Mailing list security

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/25/2017 11:12 AM, Colin Smale wrote:
> I just got an email from the mailing list system that my
> account/membership had been disabled due to "excessive bounces". I have
> no idea why, but that is not the point I want to make here. My point is
> that the email I received contained my password to that account, in
> plain text!

Why don't we simply nuke all mailman passwords, they're not needed
anyway. (All the lists I signed up for, I can't remember, either I
didn't set a password, or Mailman assigned a random one, so it never
occurred to me that there was anything to protect.)

Bye
Frederik

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