Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Brad Knowles : > On Oct 22, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull > wrote: > > > I'm dubious about the net value of CAPTCHAs. Personally, I generally > > take a CAPTCHA as a "NO TRESPASSING -- THIS MEANS YOU!" sign, and > > don't go back. > > CAPTCHAs are already at the point where advanced

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 01:31 +, Kalbfleisch, Gary wrote: > I personally don't care for CAPTCHA but it exists for a reason. 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

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
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 an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
I personally don't care for CAPTCHA but it exists for a reason. 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. Gary Kalbfleisch Sent from my iPod On Oct 22, 2012,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kalbfleisch, Gary writes: > Kalbfleisch, Gary responds: > > Messages are batchable, but administrative tasks are not. As you > noted you must tick each box, and yes I'm talking pages and pages > of bogus subscription requests. Quite tedious. This would be a bigger problem than losing vali

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Kalbfleisch, Gary
Hi Stephen, Thank you for your reply. My responses are below > -Original Message- > From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:step...@xemacs.org] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:20 PM > To: Kalbfleisch, Gary > Cc: mailman-users@python.org > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bo

[Mailman-Users] iMailModerate 1.1.0

2012-10-22 Thread Manuel Weiel
Hi together, a new version of iMailModerate is available. It brings iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support. Also the member-list is now not fully loaded (which can be too slow on big lists), but will be dynamically loaded. I'm preparing a bigger update in the near future. iMailModerate is the best way to