Re: [Mailman-Developers] Remediation for fake member creation

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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> To: "Franck Martin" <franck@peachymango.org> Cc: "Barry Warsaw" <barry@list.org>, "mailman-developers" <mailman-developers@python.org> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 9:06:31 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Remediation for fake member creation

Franck Martin writes:

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May be a captcha? Or some more modern techniques...

Captchas aren't applicable to email requests. It will be harder than that.

yes but protecting the web form from non-human subscription is a good step to take

WDOT?

Can't you send the email subscription request to moderation before the email confirmation is sent?

Not ideal, but it is kind of like emergency moderation.