[Mailman-Developers] Hashing member passwords in config.pck

[Ian Eiloart]

--On February 10, 2005 14:44:22 -0400 Adrian Bye <adrian at tasdevil.com> 
wrote:

> Getting rid of passwords would open up mailman to usage to a much wider
> range of users, which should mean more development resources and interest.

No, no, no, no!

The web application can be much improved in various ways, but having to 
authenticate via mailback verification would be a usability nightmare. It 
would take longer to do anything, and require the user to continually 
switch windows.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS