[Mailman-Developers] Self-Approve Link in Member-Only error messages

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 20:13 -0500 schrieb Dan MacNeil:
> Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Alternatively, a message to a members-only mailing list could
> > automatically trigger a subscribe challenge that, if acted upon, not
> > only subscribes the sender, but also approves the held-back message.
> 
> I often miss stuff but near as I can tell this would be a bad thing. Joe
> Job/backscatter wise.
> 
> Zombie soliders 1-n send email on behalf of joe at job.com to list-
> L at lists.foo.org.
> 
> Worst case, list-L sends N subscribe challenges to joe.
> 
> Likely case, Joe gets a (1) challenge and clicks "this is spam", thefore
> making it harder for nancy at job.com to get her list emails.
> 
> Best case, Joe gets (1) subscribe challenge and ignores it.

Currently, Joe would get N messages telling him that he is not
subscribed. If he marks these as spam we get the same result, don’t we?
Thus adding a “self-approve mail” link or a “subscribe” link to this
message this scenario is not any more likely.

Greetings,
Joachim

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