(This mail is only relevant to people who maintain a WMF mailman list)
Hi,
due to increasing spam rates to the mailing lists, is there a way of cutting down on the spam we receive and/or the work needed in dealing with it? Currently, there is a checkbox saying to "discard all messages marked defer" (which is the default) - but I don't think this actually prevents further postings from the same spammer (correct me I'm wrong). Marking every message for the 'discard/block combo' takes increasing amounts of time. What I'm wondering is if it's possible to, say, "mark all messages as spam", which would do that job for us? Or can one increase the threshold for potential spam (and is that what David Gerard did recently on the wikiEN-l list)? Also, I invariably get the same spam messages sent to my own inbox - is this preventable?
Cheers,
Cormac