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diff --git a/personal/_posts/2018-06-02-mailman-subscription-spam.md b/personal/_posts/2018-06-02-mailman-subscription-spam.md
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--- a/personal/_posts/2018-06-02-mailman-subscription-spam.md
+++ b/personal/_posts/2018-06-02-mailman-subscription-spam.md
@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ have found my servers so far are much less patient than that, just setting
 spam.
 
 So, if you are reading this and running a Mailman installation: **Please set
-`SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET` and protect your setup against abuse!**  Just run `pwgen
-16` to get some random string, and then add `SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = "<random
-string here>"` to `/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py`.  It's really that simple!  Just a
+`SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET` and protect your setup against abuse!** Just run
+`openssl rand -base64 18` to get some random string, and then add
+`SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = "<random string here>"` to `/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py`.
+It's really that simple!  Just a
 [four-line patch in my Ansible playbook](https://git.ralfj.de/ansible.git/commitdiff/937b170594be82e500ae726dc47de8ca9ef3dfcf)
 to get this rolled out to all servers.  Note that you need to be at least on
 Mailman 2.1.16 for this to work; all currently supported versions of Debian come