Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>The hole in this, of course, is your password.  If you keep your password
>secret, or change it every so often as most computing people would advise
>you, you shouldn't have a problem.  On the other hand, if you use a
>password that's easy to guess or if you accidentally send a password-
>protected command to the list (I did that once...:), then you leave
>your list open to the kind of attack you are concerned about.
 
This feels like one of those hints from Heloise, but here goes ...
 
Set *yourself* to review and you won't ever post your password to your
list. (Nor will you accidentally post zillions of "ok"s to your list, and
have to answer "ok what?" over and over and over and ...
 
Maureen ;-)