Tim Hunter wrote:
Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, not make us jump through hoops. I won't waste user time with a protection that can be trivially circumvented. If courier's mailing list manager were popular, do you really think that all malicious autoresponders won't be adding "yes" to the subject line five years from now? At that point is Sam going to make us type "yesyes" instead?
I think this sarcasm is a little unfair. I don't think inserting the word "yes" is protection against malicious autoresponders as much as it is protection against people who would exploit autoresponders.
See the scenario I gave in my previous email. There would never be a need to change the word to "yesyes", because autoresponders aren't in the habit of putting "yes" in the subject line in the first place.
On a side note, what is the point of having a "malicious autoresponder" anyway? You can't be subscribed more than once, so unless you have thousands of email addresses, all at different domains (IIRC, Courier only delivers one copy per domain) I can't see you doing much harm this way. And who is going to buy thousands of domains and set up malicious autoresponders just to launch an DoS attack? I believe there are easier and more effective methods.
m.
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