Hi all,
one function of this list is to be open to social media suggestions
from occasional contributors, who may not be on this list. Because it
also receives spam, such messages normally need to be approved
manually by the list moderators (James and myself). But following a
discussion elsewhere, I have just whitelisted all @wikimedia.org
addresses. We'll see whether this works well (there is a tiny, tiny
possibility that it will increase the likelihood that a spammers
successfully forges a From: address to get a message through, but the
probability should be really low). We can then also look further into
other whitelisting options - IIRC we've already been doing that for
addresses that have once sent messages which were approved.
As a general reminder: When replying to emails from non-list members
on this list, one needs to CC them explicitly, or they won't receive
the response. (This is of course true regardless of whether a sender
is whitelisted or whether their email was approved manually.)
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Tilman Bayer
Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications)
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB