Hi all,
(not really sure this is the right place, please redirect me if needed)
Togheter with Effeietsanders I am administering the
wikilovesmonuments-l mailing list[0].
This list is receiveing huge amounts of spam messages (quick
stat: we are talking about 20 messages per hour).
We have tried to implement some spam filter rules following this[1] (a
page which I have edited myself) but basically we were unable to get
any effect of sorts.
Here's the two spam filtering rules I have created:
* Rule 1: X-Spam-Score: [+]{2,99}
* Rule 2: X-Spam-Score: [*]{2,99}
I have added both rules with "+" and "*" to be sure, and I have
specified the numbers (more or equal than 2 and less or equal than 99)
because in my first try the rule with just {2,} (i.e. "more or equal
than 2") was not working.
The fact is that the solution didn't work out in the end (we were
still holding in our moderation queue lots and lots of messages with
an high spam score) and so we are
changing the default policy for the list about non-member messages
from "Hold" to "Reject" (If somebody can make a case for
"Discard"
over "Reject" please do so).
This was quite frustrating, but we were unable to fix the problem is
some other way. I am sharing this to make sure I wasn't making some
sort of stupid mistake in the rules. I would also like to have an
opinion about "Reject" vs "Discard" as a policy for non-members
messages.
Thank you.
Cristian
[0]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments
[1]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Fighting_spam_in_mailman