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>rg>:
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>
wrote:
> 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
>
> 2015-08-25 17:58 GMT+02:00 Doug Weller <dougwellerarbcom(a)gmail.com>om>:
>
>> 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>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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