On 27 August 2015 at 13:32, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/08/15 17:25, Doug Weller wrote:
Functionaries and the main en.WIki arbitration
list are getting a lot of
spam right now, with quite a few common domains.
I'm not sure why I couple of related lists I moderate only get bounces.
Doug
Email address exposure. I'm not sure right now, but one of the lists
barely had any spam, which I think was due that we had customized the
interface not to plainly show the list email (this was before the common
mailman style change).
If they are just a few, known domains, it should be easy to add a discard
filter for them. Feel free to PM me with details.
Discards are all well and good, and do reduce the work of moderators to
sort out useful emails from spam. However, if the list has "notify list
administrators of new emails" turned on - which is the normal setting,
because many lists don't get that many emails and moderators need to know
when it's time to moderate - then they will still get an email message for
every deleted, rejected, discarded, or held email. The functionaries-en
mailing list regularly gets over 100 spams a day; many of the originating
email addressed and domains have been set to auto-discard, but we still get
the emails telling us about it.
In an ideal world, list admins would be able to select receiving emails
only for held messages and not those that are autodiscarded.
Risker/Anne