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

[Zach Underwood via TriLUG]

To that point this looks to be a article from 2002 pointed out how mailman
does this https://www.jwz.org/doc/mailman.html

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:25 PM Zach Underwood <zunder1990 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The behavior of sending out passwords by mailman list server manager is
> well documented and has been happening forever. I remember getting them
> from different mailing lists over 14 years ago.
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:18 PM Alan Porter via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Wasn't this referred to, back in the day, as the "Massive Security
>> Breach"
>> fiasco?  Much hand-waving ensued, and finally everyone decided that it
>> didn't
>> really add up to anything meaningful?
>>
>> I did some Googling and came up with NOTHING... which makes me think
>> this
>> might've just been some episode I imagined many years ago.
>>
>> Surely, some of the long-timers here remember what I am talking about,
>> perhaps with more correct details.
>>
>> Alan Porter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2023-11-01 08:31, Mike Viscount via TriLUG 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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