On Sunday 11 January 2004 2:15 pm, Jon Clausen wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:25:53PM -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Maybe there's a way out of this that would make everybody happy. Perhaps SuSE could construct a form for reporting all these things. To report a problem, etc., you'd then fill in the form and email it. SuSE could then filter all email sent to the feedback address and trash it instantly if it isn't in the proper form. That would solve SuSE's very real problem of being overwhelmed with spam. (That could be in addition to the webpage, which could also be enhanced to include the form as an alternative to the cgi stuff.)
Challenge/response ála subscribe/unsubscribe, plus strict format checking...
Challenge/response is probably more than is needed, and the extra work might discourage people from providing feedback. I can't imagine spammers finding it worthwhile to construct the form -- and if, amazingly, they did, they probably wouldn't find a particularly fertile market for their p-n-s enhancers. Paul Abrahams