On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:57, Michael Marsh wrote:
> Um, murphy sends confirmation email to any address registered through
> the web interface.
What about the idea of placing a captcha in the subscription page
(http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe) ? I am pretty sure this idea
must have occured to the persons who are in charge (as it is so simple) and
they must have discarded for some reason which I am too ignoramus to think
of...
I doubt it would help. This is a minimal-effort, large-scale
annoyance issue for a person to actually do by hand. The debian
mailing lists are a large audience. Someone sufficiently motivated to
put murphy into a spam trap with a bogus subscription attempt probably
won't balk at a captcha.
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