On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:11:11 -0400, John Vottero wrote:
John,
> What will keep the spammers from joining the list?
I admin a list where new people are set to moderated until their first post,
then it can be decided whether to accept and liberate the user or to remove it
as spam. But this requires extra human work and I don't know if SourceForge
supports this at all (besides, everything should work by e-mail, by replying to
prefabricated e-mail addresses in notification letters, going to a web site to
change settings would be far more hassle). But, as far as I can tell,
relatively few spammers take the trouble to join a list. Here, they have to
provide a valid e-mail address, reply to a confirmation mail, and then send the
spam from the same address, then unsubscribe (but chances are it will be
removed, anyway, by an admin). Yes, it can be done using disposable addresses
but spam usually arrives by the single action of blindly targeting the list
address (probably among a million other addresses, not sent specifically here),
harvested from somewhere on the web.
There would be another solution to serve the causal user with a single question
but SourceForge should provide it, too. A web form with captcha and all to
inject a message into the list. Failing that, tightening the entry would be our
only chance to keep spam at bay.
Bye,
Gábor
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