[Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscription request

The League CA Cities cacities at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 18:50:55 CET 2012


Hello

some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am
looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each
list that a bot would see but a human user will not.

I would like to have Mailman automatically drop any subscription request
that has the hidden field fill out.

below is the subscription area for the list and I have added the subject
field. the subject field is what i would like to hide and have drop the
request.

Subscribe-Box>
            </font>
 </TD>
 <TD WIDTH="12%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> </font></TD></TR>
      <tr>
        <td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="55%"><font face="Verdana"
size="2">Your name & City/Company (required):</font></td>
        <td width="33%"><font face="Verdana"
size="2"><mm-fullname-box></font></td>
 <TD WIDTH="12%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> </font></TD></TR>
      <TR>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="55%"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Subject
(required):</font></td>
        <td width="33%"><font face="Verdana"
size="2"><mm-fullname-box></font></td>
 <TD WIDTH="12%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> </font></TD></TR>
      <TR>

I am new to HTML and this is as far as i can get at the moment. If anyone
has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. I am running Mailman on
a Linux server.

Thank  you

Doug


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