[Mailman-Users] A Vote Against Passwords

[Dan Wilder]

I'll add my voice to the password-optional side.

We manage several mailing lists with up to 10,000 recipients on a list,
using Majordomo.  Which doesn't use passwords, just mail-from.  So far,
we've had precisely -->one<-- complaint about unauthorized subscribes and 
unsubscribes.

For a variety of reasons, we'd like to move these lists over to Mailman.

We don't feel that we need passwords.  We believe that the overhead
associated is more than our list subscribers desire.  And we aren't
eager to send out a few tens of thousands of password reminders each
month.  We don't think our subscribers will be appreciative of that,
in the least.

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 02:44:44PM -0700, Micah Anderson wrote:
> Personally I would like this option - being able to confirmation-mail
> method, if desired. I have a list with 5000+ users on it... it is
> surprising how many people don't read the message detailing how to
> unsubscribe or even dont know how to use it at all, totally frustrating to
> have to deal with hundreds of admin emails because people can't figure out
> how to unsubscribe. 
> 
> Micah
> 
> 
> 
>  On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:21:00AM -0700, William R. Dickson
> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 blurr at txraves.org wrote:
> > 
> > > i second this.  i wish people had the ability to sub/unsub without
> > > using a password.
> > > > 
> > > >     I vote to have the password facilities in Mailman toned down. I
> > > >     would like them removed but at least to make this optional.
> > 
> > That kind of opens subscriptions up to mischief, doesn't it?  Or do you
> > propose going to an entirely confirmation-mail method of ensuring people
> > aren't subscribed/unsubscribed without their consent?
> > 
> > -Bill
> > 
> > 
> > --
> >  William R. Dickson -- Consuming the Earth's limited resources since 1968
> >  wrd at awenet.com   http://www.awenet.com/~wrd/  (PGP public key available)
> > 
> >      My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade
> >      didn't raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front
> >      of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney, and a
> >      stenographer.
> > 					   -Sam Spade
> > 
> > 
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> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> 
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