On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Amir Rohan <amir.rohan@mail.com> writes: > I've read elsewhere that a possible solution is to provide a > mail address associated with a message (displayed on the web interface) > that routes your mail message to the thread.
Seems awfully like a here-please-spam-us button. The address would have to be displayed un-obfuscated, which means it'd get picked up by spammers' webcrawlers. Admittedly, no one would know except the PG list moderators, but I think they'd be unhappy about an increase in workload.
And before you ask: yes, spammers still do that. A lot. For example, just a few hours ago my mailserver bounced something
that certainly has never been used as a mail address, but it does match a message-ID in the pgsql-hackers archives from July. I see no plausible explanation for that except that somebody scraped it off the archives and took it for a deliverable address. This is not an isolated example; I see anywhere from a couple dozen to several hundred *per day* like this in my mail logs.
There are ways around that, probably, but I'm not sure it's worth the work.
What I thought I've seen previously is a form that allows a user to enter their email address and have the system re-send them the original email as if they had been originally included (without the other CC recipients but that could be a nice touch). I had tried using digest mode for a while and would have liked such a capability. For non-subscribers the flow would need to be more considered.