Re: it's mailman time again

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

It appears that Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> said:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 10:16:05AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > and i just have to wonder about sending passords over the net in
> > cleartext in 2023.  really?
>
> This is a non-issue.

It's like changing your password, it sort of made sense in the 1980s
when networks meant coax Ethernets and bored students could sniff
passwords, and now it's cargo cult security. These days the only
sniffable shared media left is passwordless wifi and even there as you
note, mail all goes through TLS tunnels.