[Mailman-Developers] MailMan-Traffic

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On 4/23/02 11:22 AM, "J C Lawrence" <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:

> Mailman does not store the membership list in a text file.  Further,
> under 2.1 Mailman may not store the membership list at all, but
> depending on local configuration may only have the ability to query
> (LDAP, SQL, whatever) an external service for the membership to apply
> to a specific message.

This, FWIW, is turning into a crucial issue for me. We've come ot realize
the subscriber lists are a corporate asset that needs protecting, so a big
To Do item for me now is to get them into a system inside the firewall and
off the mail list machine in the border zone, so if there's a break-in, the
data is cloistered.

Those of you who run corporate list servers ought to stop and think about
what the loss or leakage of your subscriber lists might do to you. I sat
down with my security guys last week to go over issues, and that was THE top
issue in their mind... (it started out as a "how do we protect our archives
better" meeting, actually).


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