Regarding the large amount of spam subscription
requests (which I've
encountered as well on the global-renamers queue) enabling "Confirm and
approve" subscription in the privacy section (which requires potential
subscribers to confirm through a link in their mail) seems to have worked
for me.
I believe that by unlisting the mailing list ("Advertise this list when
people ask what lists are on this machine?") you block all subscriptions,
though I'm not certain.
Savh
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From: R. Acconish <racconish(a)gmail.com>
Sent: 29/08/2015 18:21
To: Announcements for mailing list admins <listadmins(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [List admins] deleting unmoderated messages after 90 days
Anthony,
Can you please explain how to turn off subscription requests ?
Thanks,
Racconish
2015-08-29 12:29 GMT+02:00 Anthony <wikiagk(a)gmail.com>om>:
Racconish, we had the same problem a year or so
back on enwiki's
arbcom-l. We resolved it by turning off subscription requests (the
thinking was that a listadmin would always subscribe the new members
anyway). Would recommend you do the same.
On 27 August 2015 at 19:13, R. Acconish <racconish(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Don't know if this is related but car-fr-l
has been receiving an
abnormal
amount of subscription requests for the last 3
days.
Cheers,
Racconish
2015-08-25 17:58 GMT+02:00 Doug Weller <dougwellerarbcom(a)gmail.com>om>:
>
> This is scary, as it suggests that there must be some genuine emails
not
> getting through. If there are particular
lists where the numbers are
much
> higher than others than perhaps we should be
told.
> Doug Weller
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>
> 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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> Operations Engineer
>
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