Right now, there is nothing that is preventing bots from spam signing up to a mailing list. There is a known scam strategy in which a scammer signs a victim up for tons of mailing lists, thus the victim might miss an email from their bank or PayPal telling them about a large withdrawal. That, and all the spam email addresses take up resources when sending out newsletters. I probably have 2,000 spam email addresses in my mailing list and I can’t do anything about it!
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Last updated: June 29, 2019
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Totally agree! I’m using Follow Ups for my mailing list sign up and in the space of a few days since it’s been active I’ve got a lot of spam emails signing up. Very interested in getting something like a recaptcha that would prevent this.
Crickets as usual on these issues… adding this is so easy, just a couple of fields for the key and a quick check in the php code for a match. Sigh…