On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 16:35, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users < mailman-users@python.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks, > > A couple of days ago, over on the MAILOP mailinglist, there was a long > thread titled 'Mailman confirmation email denial of service'. This > detailed some of the problems we've all seen with Mailman subscription > spam. The Mailman team has addressed a lot of these problems with > ReCAPTCHA support and additional configuration options. Arguably the > best solution has been the ReCAPTCHA integration. BUT, a lot of people > don't like the Google tie-ins that come with ReCAPTCHA. > > Recently, a kind person submitted a patch [1] to Mailman for hCAPTCHA an > alternative to ReCAPTCHA. In the discussion of that patch, Mark has > stated that he is not interested in any more features for Mailman 2.x. > I think that is fine, Mark has given decades of this time to Mailman and > I think it's perfectly natural for him to want to move on. He deserves > a lot of credit for Mailman's success, both the 2.x and 3.x branches. > > So, I have volunteered to spearhead an effort to add one or two more > people to the Mailman Coders group[2] in order to vet and approve new > features that continue the long tradition of providing value to Mailman > 2.x. Who's with me on this? > > > > 1. https://code.launchpad.net/~jks/mailman/hcaptcha/+merge/389691 > > 2. https://launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/+members#active > > I am not a developer at all and will never be one, but seeing as Python2.x is being dropped soon in most platforms and mailman-2.x relies on it, it only makes sense for me that efforts are made to better mailman-3.x and let 2.x go away slowly. But I do support the addition of that 1 feature - because you have volunteered to add it :-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
