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Subject: Earthlink e-mail passwords
From: Doug McNutt <douglist @ macnauchtan . com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:56:44 -0600
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com

I have to tell someone and you folks are the closest to being appropriate of the lists I read.

At 05:07 -0400 8/5/02, service@earthlink.net wrote:
>SPRINT BROADBAND DIRECT/EARTHLINK:08/04/02
>EARTHLINK - Midas Customer No.: ******* 
>
>Dear Sprint Broadband Direct(sm)/EarthLink member,
>
>  This email contains essential information for (your) mailboxes.  It is important that you save this email so you will have a record of the username, password, and email address for each of your mailboxes.
>
>Primary Email address: ******@earthlink.net
>Your new username is: ******
>Your new password is: *****

** More names and passwords SNIPPED ***

The usernames and passwords are not in any sense "new".

I have been their customer for a couple of years through Sprint BroadBand and I have assigned accounts and passwords to a half dozen friends on this account and another.

And now, in plain text over IP, comes all of my passwords.

Sigh. . . Why worry about m.gmane.org?

-- 

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