full-disclosure - Re: Mailman Mis/Default configuration

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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:23:18 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Sagar Belure <sagar.belure@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Mailman Mis/Default configuration

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:17 +0530, Sagar Belure said:
> Hi,
> 
> By default, while subscribing to a mailing list on a website, running
> Mailman (GNU) for mailing list management, the user has got options to
> manage his/her subscription options.
> There is an option of getting password reminder email for this list
> once in a month.
> And, by default, this option is set to Yes.
> Along with sending the password reminder mail in *plain text* to the
> users, it get's archived on the sites too.
> 
> This seems that, the mailing list admins are not aware of the power of
> search engine bots. :-)

That's not a Mailman problem.

The problem there is people who implement mailing list archives by subscribing
an address to the list, and then blindly archiving everything that arrives.

Yeah, it's still a problem, let's just point the blame where it belongs...

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