You all seem to miss the point. The junk that got through was directed at the -owner addresses like pywikibot-owner@lists.wikimedia.org not at the actual lists.

Maarten

On 05-05-17 00:53, Michael F. Schönitzer wrote:

Another tipp for linux terminal users: there ist a software called
listadmin, wich you can use to moderate very efficiently big amounts of
mailinglists.

If some wikimedia-tech-related list desperately needs a moderator, I
would also volunteer, moderating one more lists… ;)

Regards,
 M


Am Donnerstag, den 04.05.2017, 09:51 -0700 schrieb Nick Wilson
(Quiddity):

A couple of thoughts:
There are 3 sections of questions related to reducing spam, at the
bottom of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mailing_lists/Administ
ration if anyone has tips/answers?

I've added details on a useful greasemonkey script (written by
bd808), that greatly speeds up the moderation process of discarding
spam and adding addresses to the auto-discard list, in a subsection
of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration#Tend_
to_pending_moderator_requests

HTH, 


On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk@effeietsanders.org

wrote:
Totally feel with you. I had to fully auto-reject non-members on
other lists for the same reason. 

It would be helpful if more spam would be rejected right away (e.g.
if a message is rejected/explicitely ignored in more than two
mailing lists, you can ignore them elsewhere, too). 

Lodewijk

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.n
l> wrote:

Hi everyone,

For quite some time I have been one of the people maintaining and
moderating the different Pywikibot mailman lists. Over time the
amount of junk (spam) coming in through the -owner addresses of
these lists has increased a lot. My impression is that the people
in charge of maintaining mailman are not doing enough to fight
this kind of abuse. I'm so annoyed by this I decided now is a
good time to stop maintaining mailman lists and spend my time on
something more fulfilling.

Maarten


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