On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 16:35, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users < mailman-users@python.org> wrote:
Hi Folks,
A couple of days ago, over on the MAILOP mailinglist, there was a long thread titled 'Mailman confirmation email denial of service'. This detailed some of the problems we've all seen with Mailman subscription spam. The Mailman team has addressed a lot of these problems with ReCAPTCHA support and additional configuration options. Arguably the best solution has been the ReCAPTCHA integration. BUT, a lot of people don't like the Google tie-ins that come with ReCAPTCHA.
Recently, a kind person submitted a patch [1] to Mailman for hCAPTCHA an alternative to ReCAPTCHA. In the discussion of that patch, Mark has stated that he is not interested in any more features for Mailman 2.x. I think that is fine, Mark has given decades of this time to Mailman and I think it's perfectly natural for him to want to move on. He deserves a lot of credit for Mailman's success, both the 2.x and 3.x branches.
So, I have volunteered to spearhead an effort to add one or two more people to the Mailman Coders group[2] in order to vet and approve new features that continue the long tradition of providing value to Mailman 2.x. Who's with me on this?
I am not a developer at all and will never be one, but seeing as Python2.x is being dropped soon in most platforms and mailman-2.x relies on it, it only makes sense for me that efforts are made to better mailman-3.x and let 2.x go away slowly.
But I do support the addition of that 1 feature - because you have volunteered to add it :-)
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