I entirely sympathize with the list moderators here; I moderate several other lists, and the amount of spam coming in has gotten ridiculous. It's not unusual to get 50 spam messages a day on most lists, and even more on lists like wikimedia-l or wik-en-l - or some of the email addresses feeding into OTRS.
I think this comes down to some fundamental issues with filtering of spam at the systems level, and it might be worthwhile to put in a bugzilla to see if better spam filtering throughout the Mailman system can be added in.
Risker/Anne
On 30 October 2013 11:59, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Kevin,
What you propose is entirely reasonable. I support your idea of autofiltering spam.
yours,
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Kevin Gorman kgorman@gmail.com wrote:
Hey all -
Unfortunately, we've become the target of some pretty serious spammers. I've been getting a very large number of held for moderation email messages each day, and only one in a hundred are legitimate messages. I'm going to adjust our spam filters later tonight to hopefully let a higher number of the messages that are legitimate through, but after that, I'm going to start autofiltering the spam notifications out and not reading them. I hate to do so, but there are just too many of them.
If you send a message to the list and it doesn't get through, please email me personally so I can approve it. Additionally, if you're a member who has been moderated and send an email to the list, please drop me a personal email as well, so that I can approve it.
Thanks, Kevin Gorman
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