Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spamsubscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: > The asking of a question which requires an "obvious to a human but > extremely difficult to a machine" answer is probably the best > defence as long as the questions and answers aren't fixed over many > Mailman installations. That's a great idea, actually! How about a s

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spamsubscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Richard Damon wrote: > >For other types of bots, having a key on the page that is needed to be >returned will help, as it will catch bots that "know" what the >subscription form looks like and just go around trying to submit it. >Even better is to give out different keys each time, and checking tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: > The League CA Cities wrote: > >some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am > >looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each > >list that a bot would see but a human user will not. > > > >I would like to have Mailman a

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Damon
On 12/14/12 12:52 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > The League CA Cities wrote: >> some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am >> looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each >> list that a bot would see but a human user will not. >> >> I would like to h

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
The League CA Cities wrote: > >some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am >looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each >list that a bot would see but a human user will not. > >I would like to have Mailman automatically drop any subscription re

[Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscription request

2012-12-14 Thread The League CA Cities
Hello some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each list that a bot would see but a human user will not. I would like to have Mailman automatically drop any subscription request that has the hidden fi