On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:57, Michael Marsh wrote: > Um, murphy sends confirmation email to any address registered through > the web interface. What about the idea of placing a captcha in the subscription page (http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe) ? I am pretty sure this idea must have occured to the persons who are in charge (as it is so simple) and they must have discarded for some reason which I am too ignoramus to think of...
I doubt it would help. This is a minimal-effort, large-scale annoyance issue for a person to actually do by hand. The debian mailing lists are a large audience. Someone sufficiently motivated to put murphy into a spam trap with a bogus subscription attempt probably won't balk at a captcha. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com