[TriLUG] amazed and concerned - mailing list membership info reminders

[Zach Underwood via TriLUG]

It should be pointed out that between the  trilug mailman server and gmail
servers it was running in TLS so no man in the middle could see the info.
Now the mailman server and gmail servers can read that info.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 8:51 AM shay walters via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Just speaking for myself, I never re-use passwords on different
> services, so the only thing that is in peril is my feed of messages
> from this specific group.  Somebody could post messages as me, but I
> should notice something like that pretty quickly.  My bigger concern
> would be how somebody got the (admittedly unencrypted) monthly group
> reminder out of my email.
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 8:33 AM Mike Viscount via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've always been amazed that the monthly trilug membership list reminders
> > go out ... and still go out.  I mean ... like ... really?  It seems like
> > it's a monthly exercise in compromising every trilug account.  login info
> > and passwords and no effort to even hide them.
> >
> > So my question is - why is it done?
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