Steps to restrict false impersonations
If you do not require your members to have passwords, then non-members may be able to get their way into your mailing list and read the archives, if they know just the email address of
a member on your list. The reason for this is that Lyris List Manager protects members with a username/password combination, with the email address as the username. Thus, if your members have no
passwords defined, it is fairly easy to log in as them.
If this concerns you, you can set your mailing list to require member passwords. If you enable this list setting, Lyris List Manager will automatically assign a random password to subscriptions
obtained via email and notify the subscriber of their password. These generated passwords are built on an easy to remember adjective-noun combination, so that they do not present an overwhelmingly
difficult password to remember. With this option enabled, subscriptions over the web will require that a password when the Subscription form is filled out in order to be approved.
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