You all seem to miss the point. The junk that got through was directed
at the -owner addresses like pywikibot-owner(a)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(a)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(a)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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