Barry Warsaw writes: > I'll be honest, I really hate captchas.
I do too, and will not work on adding them. But they're a frequent RFE (or were at one time), and with Google oomph behind reCAPTCHA, I wouldn't be surprised if they rise in popularity again. And they don't violate any RFCs. If Abhilash wants to work on them, let him! As long as it's a boolean option using an external service like reCAPTCHA (if you think set(Google) <= set(NSA) you need not use it), the bug maintenance burden should be low, we can always refuse future RFEs, and if it keeps some people from trying to filter spam or spammer subscriptions in Mailman it might even be a net configuration support win. IMO the only tough call would be a GSoC proposal, because that probably would force us to refuse another proposal. There I would advocate taking the attitude that we should look at the quality of the students and their likelihoods of future attachment to Mailman, and not discriminate against this particular potential project unless the students really are quite equivalent. Steve _______________________________________________ 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