On 03/05/2016 04:03 AM, Aditya Divekar wrote: > > I was mostly basing this idea on the lines that it is easy to put in a spam > subscription request to the mailing lists now. > Implementing captcha could nip most of these attempts in the bud itself, > and save mailman the extra efforts of sending the confirmation link to the > subscriber.
Subscription confirmation has nothing to do with spam subscription attempts. It is to prevent me (a human) from subscribing other people's addresses to lists. Captchas and similar hoops to jump through do not stop my doing that and do not obviate the need for confirmation. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
