tag 539480 wontfix thanks Eugene Gorodinsky schrieb am Saturday, den 01. August 2009:
> Package: lists.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > As I understand there is a decision to keep the debian list open to all. > > This results in having to deal with a lot of spam emails. My > suggestion is to have a list of authenticated senders and > non-authenticated senders. Upon sending a message to the list, a > non-authenticated sender will have an e-mail sent back to her with a > request to confirm that the email was indeed sent from the address > specified in its header and by a person (spammers use automation > software and fake email addresses, so most of the spam messages won't > be confirmed). The system could require the user to send another > email, with an automatically generated confirmation code, to confirm > that she sent the first email. Upon receiving the confirmation email, > the original email will be published on the list. Additionally the > non-authenticated sender may be added to the authenticated senders > list. Any person who subscribes to the list will automatically be > added to the list of authenticated senders. Any kind of challenge response system is a no-go. I have seen to many of them misused for denial of service attacks (spam senders are usally forged), also having two challenge response systems playing ping-pong is really great. Also its a general policy that our mailinglists are open. So unfortunaly I have to tag your request wontfix. Thanks Alex - listmaster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
