Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
I just received the email below as spam via wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org. However the email is clearly not sent via the mailing list as it is lacking the footer and subject and also am I not subscribed to that lists. It does however appear to be sent via the Wikimedia mail servers:
Quite confusing, I concur. Are you a mailing list moderator/administrator? Mails sent to list admin addresses (like wikimania-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org) are routed via wikimedia servers, but don't get lists footers. As they spam to many addresses the To: headers doesn't always match with the address from which you're receiving them. I have got mails at an owner address with a different owner mail set in the To:
My personal trick to deal with them is to configure a plus address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Plus_.28or_Minus.29_addressing at mailman, which is the one sending to my email. I then filter with the Delivered-To: header to a low read priority folder.
Also, obfuscating the addresses at the list page hugely decreases the amount of spam.