SharePoint Dragons

In the forums, a user asked why SharePoint didn’t send the user name and password via e-mail. For a moment, our immediate was: SharePoint doesn’t send out user names and passwords, now does it? After looking it up it turns out that only SharePoint Foundation 2010 in Active Directory Account Creation Mode does: http://dishasharepointworld.blogspot.in/2011/04/active-directory-account-creation-mode.html and http://tristanwatkins.com/index.php/active-directory-account-creation-mode-sharepoint-2010/