Hi, Am Montag, den 22.01.2007, 13:20 +0100 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:18 +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > Thank you for your suggestion. Spam bots register and post on my web > > > forum which has email verification of registrations. So do you really > > > think this would help? > > > > If they can do that, they also could confirm the subscription > > confirmation and then spam the list. But currently, only web spam bots > > do that, not e-mail spam bots, do they? > > Since Mailman is a high-profile mailinglist server, I think that the > simple need to click such a link would be implemented quite quickly. If > implemented upstream, this feature would reach Debian stable about 1,5 > years from now the earliest, and there's a good chance that bots have > caught up by then. > > I do not think that the implementation effort offsets the benefits.
Hmm. I haven’t yet seen e-mail spam direct targeted against mailing lists. What you describe is a mixture of current web-spam-bots and e-mail bots. As soon as the e-mail bots indeed start waiting for bounces and activate links, they might as well register to the mailing lists. So I think the feature does not considerably weaken the spam-protection provided by member-only posting, but does make life easier for both posters and list master. But I can understand your point, so if you think such a feature would not be worth it, that’s ok. BTW, are you part of upstream of does upstream read these bug mails? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
