Kalbfleisch, Gary writes: > I personally don't care for CAPTCHA but it exists for a reason.
Sure, the eternal search for easy solutions to difficult problems. > If anyone can suggest a better solution I would love to here it. > Right now Mailman is being exploited to email bomb individuals and > DOS email systems. This cannot continue. It's not obvious there are better solutions. It's pretty obvious that CAPTCHA is at a stage where serious miscreants won't be slowed much by it (there are canned solutions, and even in 2009 they were good enough for automated mischief-making), while it does bother legitimate users. You're right that it can't continue, but I don't really know if there's a way out. It may just not be possible to advertise open- subscription lists without attracting such abuse. One thing we could try is to encourage use of OpenID (which Mailman doesn't support AFAIK, but there may be third-party patches, and I bet Mark (2.1 series) and Barry (Next Generation) would both be happy to see it. I guess mailbomb.com could just automate creation of GMail or Hotmail accounts, so it wouldn't be a permanent solution. But it would be transparent to most users, and some would be actively pleased by it. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
