OT: MailMan spam protection (was Re: [ILUG] hey hun )

[Justin Mason]

Rick Moen said:

> Pretty neat.  That would halt drive-by list-spammings of the fully
> automated variety, unless and until it became widely enough adopted that 
> the bad guys auto-parsed that magic token to get approval
> illegitimately.

Yeah -- and if/when that does happen, we can move into

  (a) phrased instructions: "reply with the word 'cat' in uppercase"

  (b) images: "go to http://blah.com/foo.gif" and reply with the word in
  that image"

That should make it too labour-intensive for the spammers, I'd say, esp.
if each list can have a different instruction phrase and password.
Unfortunately, it's still stuck in "idea" phase for me so far. :(

--j.