On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > We recently got a frothing email from a user, which basically said, "You > farking idiots, you emailed me my password in plain text!" It turns > out, his user name was the same as his password and what we had sent him > (in response to an account recovery query) was his username.
Sadly, there *are* systems that will actually email passwords in plain text, and don't tell you so beforehand (Mailman at least tells you that the password isn't meant for security). I met one recently. Did not appreciate that. Fortunately when I changed my password, the new password wasn't emailed back to me. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
