[Mailman-Users] Unexpected password reminder from this list

Jim Popovitch jimpop at domainmail.org
Mon Aug 6 23:17:41 EDT 2018


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On Mon, 2018-08-06 at 19:00 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 08/06/2018 11:08 AM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
> > 
> > What's your thoughts on adding reCAPTCHA to the 2nd half of the
> > listinfo page in order to mitigate some of that?
> 
> At this point I have no interest. I think most "other address"
> password requests are either inadvertence, curiosity, or malice on
> the part of humans.
> 
> If and when I see evidence of massive robotic reminder requests, I
> may rethink this, but I note that the implementation of reCAPTCHA on
> the web subscribe form on all Mailman 2.1 @python.org lists didn't
> seem to make much of a dent in the bogus web subscribes we were
> seeing despite the fact that the form must first be retrieved by GET
> and then the POST can't come too soon thereafter.
> 

Ack.  FWIW, I think that's a healthy attitude about this.   

Thanks,

- -Jim P.
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