[tech] Mailman *really* due for an upgrade

[bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]

Hi All,

This is partly me making sure I haven't made the mailing lists explode, 
and partly reporting on my (non)success with adding recaptcha support to 
our mailman install.

I tried following the instructions at: https://www.dragonsreach.it/2018/02/26/adding-recaptcha-v2-support-mailman/
and hand patched it. I am not a python user, so feel free to laugh at my 
pain.

For those not in the know, our current mailman install was hand-rolled 
back in about 2006. It runs on python 2.4. This is great, except the 
recaptcha-client script that has recaptchaV2 support is only supported in 
python 2.7. So, short of backporting that script - and I mentioned that I 
don't know python - it isn't happening. I think it's time to install the 
debian package version and be on our way.

Wheel: I put the keys for recaptcha v2 in uccpass.

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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