[Libre-soc-dev] manic mailman hacking session

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Mon, May 17, 2021, 12:20 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> On Monday, May 17, 2021, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021, 10:54 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > i've just spent a mad hour and a half hacking in recaptcha into
> mailman,
> > > due to an abuse report received by mythic-beasts.  documented here
> > > https://libre-soc.org/resources/server-setup/mailman/
> >
> >
> > Hope you also saw:
> > https://www.dragonsreach.it/2018/02/26/adding-recaptcha-
> > v2-support-mailman/
>
>
> i didn't, i just got on with hacking the original into submission.
>
>
> >
> > Also, we should spend some time looking for a libre alternative, iirc
> > recaptcha is not libre software.
>

Apparently mailman 2.1.30 has captcha built in:
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/06/10/mailman-subscription-spam-continued.html

Jacob

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