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

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Justin Mason wrote:

>   (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. :(

Regrettably this is likely to break Colm's (perfectly reasonable) requirement
not to discourage new people.

Gavin