Re: [LAU] [Off topic] lists.linuxaudio.org mailing list memberships reminder

On Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:17:09 +0100, Daniel Swärd wrote: I doubt it's intended as a security enhancement. What makes you think that this should be related to security? My guess is, that email providers and other suppress "paste" for "repeat your email address, password or whatsoever" that their users do this gazillion times a week, so that thousands of users would accidentally copy some random thing two times from the buffer. Two times the same means, that it does pass the comparison between the first field and the repeat field. This would result in users sending thousands of requests to the support. "My user name is idiot. I don't know what address I used to subscribe. Please help!" If it's not a random email address, then maybe a random password, so they at least cause server loead, since they need to request a password reset. That's just my guess, perhaps I'm mistaken.