[Mailman-Developers] Self-Approve Link in Member-Only error messages

[Joachim Breitner]

Hello,

a lot of mailing lists have posting only available to members just to
prevent spam. For these lists there should be an option that adds a link
to the „Your message is held...“ notification that will allow the
message to go through, just like the link to delete it, or the check in
the subscription handshake. This would reduce work for the list
administrator and be more friendly to the casual poster.

In http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407530 it was argued
that spammers would then soon start to learn to „click“ this link. I
disagree though that this feature will indeed open the gates to
spammers: If they figure out how to activate a link in a confirmation
message, they will figure out how to subscribe anyways. 

Alternatively, a message to a members-only mailing list could
automatically trigger a subscribe challenge that, if acted upon, not
only subscribes the sender, but also approves the held-back message.

What do you think?

Greetings,
Joachim

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