From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Morten K. Poulsen" Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:00:47 +0000 Subject: Re: moderation only by sender Message-Id: <1246986047.4080.20.camel@mopo-laptop> List-Id: References: <5e77c93d0907031333q4cba6335ib8f8622a40518edf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5e77c93d0907031333q4cba6335ib8f8622a40518edf@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 18:17 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > The bounce message does the perfect captcha work... No, the moderation message can not tell a computer from a human. It can only authenticate "whatever sent the mail" as "something in control of that specific mail account." > I don't like the: > allow X-MySecret: a6e043b3786d6d19bc141e7d194b6517 > > It's not always easy to add such headers. Like explain to me how I can > do this with the standard mail client of my Nokia phone... You probably don't send automated newsletters from your phone. The point of using a mail header with a key, was to allow automated newsletter dispatching, without having to handle the moderation mail. If you have a human involved, who does not know how to add headers, moderation is probably the easiest approach. You can even have both: allow X-MySecret: a6e043b3786d6d19bc141e7d194b6517 moderate Morten -- Morten K. Poulsen CTO, FableTech http://fabletech.com/