[Mailman-Developers] [Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>] Re: Bounceremoval parameters default values

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Thu Jul 1 20:57:38 EDT 2004


On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:48:21 -0700 
John W Baxter <jwblist at olympus.net> wrote:
> On 7/1/2004 9:57, "J C Lawrence" <claw at kanga.nu> wrote:

>> They can of course always gain that same time and more by simply not
>> upgrading.

> Which is decidedly NOT encouraged by this snippet from Barry's 2.1.5
> announcement:

>   This version also contains a fix for an exploit that could allow 3rd
>   parties to retrieve member passwords.  It is thus highly recommended
>   that all existing sites upgrade to the latest version.

Yup, of such hard choices are upgrades made.

Of course Mailman passwords are also not the most significant things in
the computing universe.

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J C Lawrence
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