On 7/10/24 7:36 PM, Ben Sturmfels via Mailman-users wrote:
Is there a configuration option that does this, or was it a custom change made in the templates? Was the change made to reduce fake registrations? Did it work?
It was added in Postorius 1.3.9. See the UI section at https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/postorius/en/latest/news.html#news-1-3-9
Yes, the change was made in an attempt to reduce fake registrations.
We haven't really studied it's effectiveness. It seems to help somewhat, but it also seems that bots may already have a template to POST so removing it from the UI is not a complete solution.
There is also a lot of email to innocent third parties and non-existent addresses from attempts to register them for an account.
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