Erik Moeller wrote:
If we want to provide such a gateway, it has to use the same or a similar authentication procedure as the mailing list -- just being authenticated by your Wikipedia account would not suffice, because the Wikipedia account itself is not authenticated.
I'm not sure I follow you here. What authentication is necessary?
We do have the option of "posts only by subscribers" turned on, but that's solely to prevent spamming, as far as I know. What additional reasons for authentication might there be?
It seems unlikely to me that spammers would bother to abuse a web-posting interface. It would be a lot of work, and the one thing spammers like to avoid is work.
--Jimbo