mike.lifeguard wrote:
I was referring more to making the spam filter smarter. But I'm surprised we have only one listmod - I agree redundancy is a good idea.
Mike
Yeah. As a moderator on a couple of wikimedia lists, i find the filter (is there one?) could be smarter. Also, some kind of would be desirable, as all of us have to fight against the same message. Eg. i got three hours ago a message with recipient accounts-enwiki-l-owner. It will have been sent to the owners of almost all WMF mailing lists.
And not only that, but you need to delete the same message every time. I wish i could tell it: automatically discard any mail with a month name as subject, as well as those which contain |>entists, certification...
If the message comes from a subscriptor, put it pending for moderation instead of discarding, for such spammy terms can be legitimately used (this mail will score high on spam filters).
And if you're really worried about possible false positives, send it to the moderator as "This was automatically discarded following rule #1109" so he can detect the system holes.
Not to mention the ability of using lily's Spam-Reports to filter the incoming... It is so tempting to just click that option called "discard everything from non-subscripted"... It would cut about half of the mod spam, but is also where i've seen a few legitimate mails.