On 29/08/15 20:14, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote:
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Good idea Nick :)
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)
I see you have whitelisted anything ending in wikimedia.org¹, but I have seen spam with a spoofed from header pretending to be another list or even a list-owner², so I would put such generic whitelists with care.
¹ regex note: ^.*[.@]wikimedia.org$ would have been preferable, since someone registering evilwikimedia.org wouldn't have his email go thorugh.
² any reason the spf record for lists.wikimedia.org is set to neutral instead of being a (hard) fail?
Is that a good setting to recommend to all admins on the wiki page?
It probably depends on how confident on your rules you are. Sending a copy leaves a security layer so the moderator can still look at them. OTOH, for small lists where everyone is a moderator, I think it's worth to actually avoid the other moderators the trouble of seeing them.