On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 13:44, Adrian Bye wrote: > Why even bother with passwords? They're good to include in the unsubscribe > URL, > so that if someone maliciously gets your list, they can't unsubscribe everyone > manually. But mainstream commercial autoresponders have no passwords, and > they > work great.
Since Mailman 2.1, passwords have not been required to unsubscribe, even though it is a common misconception that they are. I'm not sure why people forget that! Actually, I think that if we just shut off the monthly reminder, 99% of Mailman users would never even know they had a password (who reads those welcome messages anyway?). They wouldn't care either because most people don't change their options and private archives aren't as common as public archives. -Barry
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