On 29/08/15 20:14, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote:
[A thread for discussing tips, and sharing how-to.
Updates should be made (by anyone confident) to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration
*Non-private questions should be asked at the talkpage there.*
Mute this thread if you don't want to see it and you use an email
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Good idea Nick :)
I just learned about the option to Not send me a copy
of every bounce.
So that will be nice! (bottom radio-button in this screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/hu5SR8h.png)
I see you have whitelisted anything ending in wikimedia.org¹, but I have
seen spam with a spoofed from header pretending to be another list or
even a list-owner², so I would put such generic whitelists with care.
¹ regex note: ^.*[\.(a)]wikimedia\.org$ would have been preferable, since
someone registering
evilwikimedia.org wouldn't have his email go thorugh.
² any reason the spf record for
lists.wikimedia.org is set to neutral
instead of being a (hard) fail?
Is that a good setting to recommend to all admins on
the wiki page?
It probably depends on how confident on your rules you are. Sending a
copy leaves a security layer so the moderator can still look at them.
OTOH, for small lists where everyone is a moderator, I think it's worth
to actually avoid the other moderators the trouble of seeing them.