In article <3d2f27d6$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Fox Neilson" <ine### [at] myrealboxcom> wrote:
>That is about the dumbest statement I've heard all day.  First of all most
>corparations use IMAP and not POP.  Secondly POP has MANY extensions for

Not everyone is in a corporation.

>secure passwords, and many clients/servers implement them so the average
>person will not have a clear text password, and thirdly POP can be used with
>SSL or TLS.  The actual percentage of people who send clear text passwords
>on a regular basis is very low.

Where is the data on which you make this conclusion? I can tell you that 
the percentage of people at our university who send clear text 
passwords, the percentage of people on my Internet access company who 
send clear text passwords, and the percentage of people on my site 
hosting provider who send clear text passwords, is very high. The first 
and last do not provide an option for non-geeks to not send clear text 
passwords to access their e-mail. The middle one definitely still uses 
insecure POP in their user instructions. If they provide secure e-mail 
password checking, I don't know about (but I haven't looked hard, since 
I don't use them for e-mail).

Jerry
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