Re: QA group joining process: new members cannot subscribe to list until approved

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On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 14:22 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Uh, wouldn't the addition of a "captcha" on the signup page make
> joining up without requiring additional group memberships easier and
> more bot-proof? That would also prevent the sponsors having to deal
> with a slew of botted initial contacts.

Well, I'm just trying to match up with what's actually happened, as
opposed to debating whether the Fedora sysadmins could handle the spam
problem differently, I'd rather not get diverted too far down that
track. But in general I'd say our sysadmin folks are pretty good at
what they do and I'm inclined to trust them. I'm nowhere near as
experienced in such matters as they are, but it's my general
understanding that captchas are a long way from foolproof, and the
better captcha systems tend to be ones Fedora does not find palatable
(as they tend to involve roping the user in to be an unpaid image
recognition worker for Google...)
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