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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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>> Lately we've been seeing a LOT of spam being sent to the mailing list |
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>> subscribe mechanism, with the side effect that the subscribe mechanism |
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>> responds to the From header address with a confirmation request. That |
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>> address (along with the envelope sender) are unfortunately forged. |
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>> The volume of the confirmation requests is getting worse than direct |
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>> spams, because the spam filtering considers the confirmation requests to |
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>> be valid email (they would be, except for the fact they are |
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>> unsolicited). |
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>> To combat this problem, I'd like us to consider switching the subscribe |
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>> mechanism for the mailing lists to be a web form (protected with |
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>> recaptcha). Unsubscribe will continue to be offered as an email action |
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>> for the moment, because it ignores the mail if the address was not |
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>> subscribed. |
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> I have no objection to this one as I have been receiving quite a few of |
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> these... |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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Is there something besides a captcha that can be used? I hate those |
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things because they make no sense to me. I usually just give up when I |
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encounter one of these and try three or four times with no success. The |
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ones that look like broken glass or something are the ones I don't even |
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try anymore. I can't get past one of those. |
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Just curious if there is a better way here. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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