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

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 22 January 2007 22:42:11 +0100 Joachim Breitner 
<mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:

> 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?
>

Well, some people may think this is useful. It should be possible for a 
list owner or a site owner to disable it, though.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex