How's the antivirus filtering on mail.wikimedia.org? The less
obviously dispensible crap in the mailing list queue, the closer it
will be to humanly manageable ...
I'm not sure the spam has abated, but having any mails from real
people rejected is a bad thing. (wikien-l, unlike wikitech-l, has many
legitimate users who can't work computers. Also, it's a semi-official
contact point for blocked users on en:.
Mind you, the queue is going to be a nightmare to deal with. The Nazi
spam hasn't abated in the slightest, apparently, with a fresh attack
going out about a week ago. Good article from Der Spiegel (in English)
on the Nazi virus, which sends people to Spiegel articles (which
they're not happy with):
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,356297,00.html
- d.