[Mailman-Developers] CAPTCHA support

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
> Barry Warsaw writes:
> 
>  > I'll be honest, I really hate captchas.
> 
> I do too, and will not work on adding them.  But they're a frequent
> RFE (or were at one time), and with Google oomph behind reCAPTCHA, I
> wouldn't be surprised if they rise in popularity again.  And they
> don't violate any RFCs.
> 
> If Abhilash wants to work on them, let him!  As long as it's a boolean
> option using an external service like reCAPTCHA (if you think
> set(Google) <= set(NSA) you need not use it), the bug maintenance
> burden should be low, we can always refuse future RFEs, and if it
> keeps some people from trying to filter spam or spammer subscriptions
> in Mailman it might even be a net configuration support win.

Same here. If it's optional, why not?

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