[A thread for discussing tips, and sharing how-to.
Updates should be made (by anyone confident) to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration
*Non-private questions should be asked at the talkpage there.*
Mute this thread if you don't want to see it and you use an email program
that enables that... :-) ]
Re: SpamAssassin's X-Spam-Score - There was a bugzilla/phab task related to
spam, at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58525 ("Improve spam filtering
for Mailman mailing lists")
I've asked for an update and details about what we should use, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mailing_lists/Administration#Spam.21 -
Reply THERE please!
I've detailed my daily process at another new section just below that. If
there's something better, please let us know, there!
...
(Probably nothing private in here, but I haven't had enough coffee yet, so
instead of asking at the talkpage...)
I just learned about the option to Not send me a copy of every bounce. So
that will be nice! (bottom radio-button in this screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/hu5SR8h.png)
Is that a good setting to recommend to all admins on the wiki page?
Is there a way to get useful regex out of our current lists of
"auto-discard"? (my grep-fu and regex-fu are lacking). Here are the
addresses that I've moderated spam from, on 2 lists:
https://dpaste.de/CgxV/raw
Perhaps the mailinglists that get large quantities of spam, could somehow
share (automatically, or manually a few times a year) their
auto-discard-listings?
Hope that helps. /me goes back to his weekend, and wishes you a good one.
--
Quiddity
Hello list admins,
we have found that globally we had over half a million
mails in mailman lists that were not moderated.
So that means they got held in the moderation queues but were not
accepted or discarded.
We have started deleting the oldest ones first (over 1 year old) then
moved to (older than 6 months).
We are planning to setup an automated cron job to do this
automatically in the background.
Currently the plan is to delete all messages that are held and older
than 90 days.
Please let us know if any concerns and moderate a bit more if this
affects your list.
Thank you and best regards,
Daniel
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Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
Operations Engineer
Hello list admins,
we have found that globally we had over half a million
mails in mailman lists that were not moderated.
So that means they got held in the moderation queues but were not
accepted or discarded.
We have started deleting the oldest ones first (over 1 year old) then
moved to (older than 6 months).
We are planning to setup an automated cron job to do this
automatically in the background.
Currently the plan is to delete all messages that are held and older
than 90 days.
Please let us know if any concerns and moderate a bit more if this
affects your list.
Thank you and best regards,
Daniel
--
Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
Operations Engineer
I agree with Anne. :-)
If this is a announcement only list then the settings should be changed.
[Suggestion: Crating a own folder for mails coming from this list to prevent flooding]
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:08:54 -0400
From: risker.wp(a)gmail.com
To: listadmins(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [List admins] deleting held messages after 90 days
This makes the assumption that all Wikimedia list administrators have Phabricator accounts. Please don't make that assumption. The overwhelming majority of Wikimedians don't, and there is no reason to believe that mailing list administrators are in the small group that does.
Risker/Anne
On 27 August 2015 at 20:51, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Can we please move this discussion to a Phabricator ticket or something
else? This list was supposed to be, I thought, only for minimal
administrivia communication.
Greg
<quote name="Daniel Zahn" date="2015-08-27" time="16:08:10 -0700">
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl> wrote:
> > Can you publish a per list breakdown here? What lists had the most messages
> > waiting for moderation?
>
> Here's some data for all lists that had over 1000.
>
> 71729 ./heldmsg-wikiru
> 66819 ./heldmsg-wikinews
> 43642 ./heldmsg-maps
> 40495 ./heldmsg-wikimedia
> 38696 ./heldmsg-wikifa
> 37172 ./heldmsg-wiktionary
> 26928 ./heldmsg-wikimediabe
> 25267 ./heldmsg-wikimediake
> 25178 ./heldmsg-wikimedia
> 21802 ./heldmsg-libraries
> 21728 ./heldmsg-education
> 20654 ./heldmsg-wikisk
> 19982 ./heldmsg-wikifi
> 18612 ./heldmsg-wikiia
> 14318 ./heldmsg-wikilb
> 10470 ./heldmsg-wiktionarypt
> 10249 ./heldmsg-exyu
> 8508 ./heldmsg-wikiskan
> 5672 ./heldmsg-wikihe
> 5018 ./heldmsg-wikimedianz
> 4649 ./heldmsg-wikiquality
> 4337 ./heldmsg-wikiversity
> 2885 ./heldmsg-wikibooksde
> 2381 ./heldmsg-wikimedia
> 2238 ./heldmsg-juriwiki
> 1918 ./heldmsg-mailman
> 1821 ./heldmsg-wikimedia
> 1705 ./heldmsg-wikipedia
> 1554 ./heldmsg-wikimediafr
> 1537 ./heldmsg-infobg
> 1496 ./heldmsg-wikiar
> 1353 ./heldmsg-wikimk
> 1310 ./heldmsg-ruwikiconference
> 1240 ./heldmsg-wikimediahk
> 1168 ./heldmsg-wikimedia
> 1167 ./heldmsg-wikiml
> 1078 ./heldmsg-ca
>
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109838#1561937
>
> we also have: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110438
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110609
>
> for more data i have to restore already deleted stuff from bacula, but i can.
>
> --
> Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
> Operations Engineer
>
> _______________________________________________
> Listadmins mailing list
> Listadmins(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/listadmins
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I think this thread / conversation has been useful.
I had no idea WMF lists were so poorly operated / administered. Clean up
is definitely needed.
The WMF is responsible for the overall operation of the list / list service
and there should be a named person in the hot seat. Who is that person????
Regards, Richard.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Can we please move this discussion to a Phabricator ticket or something
> else? This list was supposed to be, I thought, only for minimal
> administrivia communication.
>
> Greg
Hey guys,
The recent activity about deleting held messages made me aware that many
people are struggling with the web interface. Thats understandable,
and while my note wont help everyone it might be able to help some.
I wanted to make people aware of the possibility to mange mailman
mailinglists via command line. It requires a working Perl, and I don't
know how easy that is to do on Windows, I will let other people try to
figure that out.
Anyway, if it looks like something that could help you, check out
http://freecode.com/projects/listadminhttp://heim.ifi.uio.no/kjetilho/hacks/#listadmin
Have a good day.
- Hans-Petter
This notice has been emailed to the list owners mailing list and operations
list, as well as posted on tasks T108099 & T107445.
I've scheduled a mailman downtime window for planned maintainance on
Tuesday, August 18th, 17:00–18:00 UTC. During this time, I'll be working
the mailman side of the two tasks. Both are involving list renames. The
deployments page on wikitech has been updated with this information:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
I do not expect this work to take the entire window. However, during this
time, mailing list traffic will fail to receive/send. Once mailman is
restarted, it will process mailing list messages. That means that mailing
list delivery may be sporadic, or not at all, during this window. Any
messages sent during this time will process either during or directly after
the end of the maintenance.
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Rob Halsell
Operations Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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