LuKreme writes: > On 6-Jan-2008, at 14:02, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Are there plans to enhance the web subscription form with a type of > >> captcha, or other technique to discourage bots? > > > > There is no current plan. > > > There really should be.
Why? It's user-unfriendly and botnet-friendly technology (ie, we know that if you throw cycles at the problem you can solve it). You get the worst of both worlds. We need to get out of the arms race with spammers. We aren't President Reagan, we can't spend them into submission. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
