[Mailman-Users] Re: cleartext passwords

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:25:22 -0400 
Gary Wilson <wilsong at sergievsky.cpmc.columbia.edu> wrote:

> I wish one of the Mailman developers would make it clear whether
> or not passwords will be made optional, and if so when it will be
> implemented.

Loosely:

  Nobody who is writing code for Mailman has popped up and said they 
  would do it.

  Nobody else has proposed a patch for Mailman.

  Nobody has been sufficiently convincing that it is a MUST-HAVE for 
  v2.0 (I don't recommend this argument).

This is Open Source after all.  

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