[Linux-aus] Linux, Open-Source and the young-people.

[Michael Chesterton]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:

> **
>
> Although it claims to know me and wanted to send password, John looked
> into it, and has since informed me I'm not on the announce list, which
> begs the question how many others aren't, so the vote announcements should
> have been CC'd to THIS list, rather than assume every single member also
> bothered to sub to announce list, which I'm rather sure not every
> does/did/would.
>
>
It's common practice to not say whether an account exists when trying to
reset a password for privacy reasons.
So that might explain why the list manager told you a password reset email
had been sent when you weren't
even subscribed.

It's also not unheard of for a main list to be subscribed to an announce
list, so all announce emails are sent to the
main list automatically without needing to CC every time. But I guess
that's up to the list admins.

On another slightly related topic, there might be a bug in the memberdb
app, I was a member years ago under
a different email address, I changed the old email address to my new one
last year, and then it forgot I was a member
and it asked me to click a link to join, which I thought I did, and many
months later when I log in, it still asks me to
click a link  to join. So I guess that means I'm not a member?

I'll try joining again.
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