[Savannah-hackers] Re: Emacs mailing lists

[Mathieu Roy]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> said:

>     It worked for me. Did you enter the correct "List Administrative
>     Password" for each list (I used an admin password that works for any
>     lists)?
> 
> I did not know these lists had an "list administrative password";
> if they do, I have no idea what it is.  How would I know? 
> 
> What if I want to enter a list that is implemented as an alias?
> Such a list would certainly not have any administrative password,
> right?
> 
> Anyway, why does Savannah need to know those details about the list,
> merely to mention it on the page?  I guess there is something I don't
> understand here.  Anyway, the page that asks for this is not clear.
> It asks for the "list administrative password" as if that were a
> simple request, but it is not really so simple.


Mailman have it's own password management. It's an pretty unsafe
system: password are sent uncrypted at list creation.

The password for these lists must be known by the person who created
the lists iniatially. Normally, people at address@hidden
should be able to provide these informations. We cannot, as we do not
manage the computer that hosts mailing-list.
We only can reset this password but we should not do that until we are
sure that nobody remember the password (because someone may be using
it still).

Attaching the list to Savannah does not only meaning mentionning the
list on the Savannah project page but being able to modify it's
description, to set it as private (or public), to delete it. That's
why the password is needed, I guess.

Regards,



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