[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

[Milos Rancic]

(It seems that mail server is not functioning properly. I've got
"local delivery failed". Trying again or tomorrow.)

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 04:14, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While it is not a big deal for me to get six emails (including one in
>> Polish) instead of once, I want to say that I already added pattern
>> for my bot accounts at the Wikimedia nomail list and it existed at
>> Friday morning there, at least [1].
>
> Sorry, that list doesn't accept regular expressions. It's a straight
> list of account names, which, until yesterday, had to go through about
> twenty minutes of preprocessing before it was useful.

I supposed that's the problem. Anyway, may you do something like:
* Check for accounts with the same email address.
* If some of the accounts have "bot" in the name (something like
"bot($|\W)"), remove them.
* If none of the accounts have it, don't touch.
* If all of the accounts have it, don't touch.