I am on many mailing lists. They are an aspect of modern life. For some people its the ‘synchonous mode’ of IM, for others its the ‘asynchonous mode’ of E-Mail.
Most of the lists I’m on are managed though YahooGroups, but a few are managed from ‘private sites’ using MailMan.
The real problem with MailMan is that on the first of the month every MailMan managed list I subscribe to sends me a message that …
… includes your subscription info and how to use it to change it or unsubscribe from a list.
You can visit the URLs to change your membership status or configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.
All well and good.
But then it also sends my password – IN CLEAR TEXT!
I have two issues with this. Read the rest of this entry »