On Jan 4, 2008 1:04 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Our ever-innovative friends the spammers have discovered subscribing to Mailman lists. We got one spam posted to wikien-l from a subscribed address today. It got caught in the mod queue, but nevertheless ...
Is this a well-known phenomenon? Is there anything like captchas in Mailman to avert this sort of thing?
Oh it happens every once in a while.
Alas googling "mailman captcha" turns up mentions of captchas on every mailing list on the net. ;) I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already done it, but we could probably hack one in if necessary.
I'm not sure how a captcha would help. Is there any reason to believe the message was even sent by a bot?