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Author: Matthew Holt
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To: System undo crew
Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] ADMIN: I just changed new subscribers to be moderated.
I joined with a Gmail address a year or so ago. I mostly just read threads
although not every thread. I don't really want to set up another email
account to keep track off, but if it's that important to follow this feed
and comment I may do so.

Matth

On 13 May 2016 at 11:34, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 11 May 2016, eden wrote:
>
> >    Spam is exactly what i was trying to avoid.

>
> nothing can substitute human attention, thanks for taking care. on the
> sysadmin side we have added a captcha to ml subscriptions at least to
> weed out the less sophisticated bots around, so you can be fairly sure
> new subs are mostly humans... or at least cyborgs :^)
>
> it is a bit upsetting that only recaptcha is easy to adopt on mailman,
> anything else would require ad-hoc coding we haven't found the time
> for... and recaptcha is a third-party service ran by google, who
> technically "knows" all people subscribing and trying to subscribe
> this list, ip of connection (when not using tor) etc.
>
> you are all welcome to come up with a better solution to this problem
> perhaps this can be even discussed off-list
>
>
> ciao
>
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