A list password is NO LONGER (if ever) required. A personal LISTSERV password ("good" for all authorized lists at your list-host) is all that is required.
See:
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/qs/qs.html#Password
At 02:27 02/05/2000 Saturday , Samuel Dilla wrote:
Forgot my List password. What do I do to GET and PUT
my list header?