Since most of us belong to many lists and have to keep a database
of basic instructions about them, the name/address of the list owner,
etc., it is easy enough to vary the password of each one.
In any event there isn't much anyone can do with an email list
password, since both the "From: " address and the password must
match--a catch-22 that renders this feature of little use for changing
the address, since in most instances the systems people have already
changed the address and it no longer matches. Yes, the "From: "
address could be forged, but besides inconveniencing a few individual
subscribers and causing problems for the list-owner, this wouldn't
seem to make much sense.
If you're suggesting that subscribers tend to use their host
account password as a list password as well, that would be very
ill-advised. In any event, since most hosts require frequent
changes of account passwords as a condition of remaining on the
system, this practice would seem to be self-defeating as a way
of remembering a password and highly inconvenient in having to
change the password of each list to match every time the account
password changed.
Unless it opens up some kind of hole into the listproc host,
I don't see the problem.
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