[Mailman-Users] Challenge/response

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:40 PM -0800 2/8/07, Bob Morse wrote:

>                     He would like to set up a challenge/response mechanism
>  so that when xyz at domain.com posts to the list, xyz at domain.com gets sent a
>  copy of the message and must confirm that he/she was the sender before it
>  gets posted. I don't see any configuration in Mailman for this. Is it
>  possible?

Challenge/response is one of the most vile inventions that has ever 
been applied to the concept of Internet e-mail.  I would violently 
oppose any integration of such features into any project I was 
involved with.

At the very least, you would have to be very, very careful how such a 
system was created, so as to avoid the problem where the "cure" is 
far worse than any possible disease that you might have.

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