I get bounces and delivery-delay notifications from the package-server
account signup/login system.

I am seeing a vast number of failed and delayed registration/login
emails to suspicious-looking email addresses recently.

I suspect we might be under spammer attack :-(

We could do a few things:

 1. switch to "log in with github", "log in with google", etc.

 2. add a dumb domain-specific captcha like "(foldl + 0 '(1 2 3)) = ?"

 3. add recaptcha

I don't very much like 3 because eww, who wants to help train
murderbots? I don't know if 2 will help, either in the short or long
term. Picking 1 will turn people off and is generally a bit exclusionary.

But I think 1 is likely the best option all around. Get someone else to
do the expensive heavy lifting.

Tricky problem. (Hard to imagine what the spammers are getting out of
this, if even they're there... Perhaps step 0 is to keep better logs of
what's going on in the system.)

Tony

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