Em Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:13:12 GMT Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> escreveu:
> it takes tens of seconds to connect. > > The problem is a spambot subscription attack against lists.gnu.org. > It's been going on for some time in various guises. The FSF sysadmins > have been chopping it off as it arises and looking for a permanent > solution. We can only hope. A captcha requirement would reduce it a lot, wouldn't it? Captchas have been discussed in Mailman's mailing list for moderation purposes, and have not been considered worthwhile. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-January/059779.html However, this isn't necessarily the case for those DoS attacks. -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) http://oitofelix.freeshell.org/ `-'(. .)`-' irc://chat.freenode.org/oitofelix \_/ xmpp:oitofe...@riseup.net GNU maintainer: ccd2cue DMOZ free software editor (Portuguese) UFU FAMAT PET member [GNU DISCLAIMER] I'm a GNU hacker, but my views don't necessarily match those of the GNU project. Hereby I express my own opinion, style and perception, in good faith, aiming the betterment of GNU.
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