On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:02:54AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > is there any mailman option or extension that > could implement a challange / response system? > (like most mailing lists have for subscription) > > that would allow users to read the mailing list via > gmane and post directly to it - after confirming the > challange mail - without the hassle of subscribing > (which includes passwords, monthly reminders, needs > to be updated if you change your email address etc.). > > I would prefer such a challange/confirm system a lot > over simply dropping all mails from outside the world.
Unfortunately, the ISP where I work receives thousands of bogus challenge e-mails, due to (trivially) forged headers. These are effectively just as bad as spam. Challenge-Reponse systems, in the short term, do not stop spam, but merely gate it to innocent third-parties (in the forged header). For this, and some other problems with C/R: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/challenge-response.html -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
