Thanks for the reply.
Can someone please confirm the best is to do nothing, i.e. to just wait
for the spam to be deleted on the server?
Cheers,
Racconish
2015-08-28 7:22 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org
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Yes: Several lists have been receiving mass
subscription requests, from
hyphenated random e-mail addresses.
A.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:13 AM, R. Acconish <racconish(a)gmail.com
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Don't know if this is related but car-fr-l
has been receiving an
abnormal amount of subscription requests for the last 3 days.
Cheers,
Racconish
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2015-08-25 17:58 GMT+02:00 Doug Weller <dougwellerarbcom(a)gmail.com
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This is scary, as it suggests that there must be
some genuine emails
not getting through. If there are particular lists where the numbers are
much higher than others than perhaps we should be told.
Doug Weller
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Daniel Zahn <dzahn(a)wikimedia.org
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> Hello list admins,
>
> we have found that globally we had over half a million
> mails in mailman lists that were not moderated.
>
> So that means they got held in the moderation queues but were not
> accepted or discarded.
>
> We have started deleting the oldest ones first (over 1 year old) then
> moved to (older than 6 months).
>
> We are planning to setup an automated cron job to do this
> automatically in the background.
>
> Currently the plan is to delete all messages that are held and older
> than 90 days.
>
> Please let us know if any concerns and moderate a bit more if this
> affects your list.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Daniel
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