Petteri Räty wrote:
> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>   
>> Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list
>> subscribe mechanism, with the side effect that the subscribe mechanism
>> responds to the From header address with a confirmation request. That
>> address (along with the envelope sender) are unfortunately forged.
>>
>> The volume of the confirmation requests is getting worse than direct
>> spams, because the spam filtering considers the confirmation requests to
>> be valid email (they would be, except for the fact they are
>> unsolicited).
>>
>> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe
>> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with
>> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action
>> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not
>> subscribed.
>>
>>     
>
> I have no objection to this one as I have been receiving quite a few of
> these...
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>
>   

Is there something besides a captcha that can be used?  I hate those
things because they make no sense to me.  I usually just give up when I
encounter one of these and try three or four times with no success.  The
ones that look like broken glass or something are the ones I don't even
try anymore.  I can't get past one of those.

Just curious if there is a better way here.

Dale

:-)  :-)