I entirely sympathize with the list moderators here; I moderate several
other lists, and the amount of spam coming in has gotten ridiculous.  It's
not unusual to get 50 spam messages a day on most lists, and even more on
lists like wikimedia-l or wik-en-l - or some of the email addresses feeding
into OTRS.

I think this comes down to some fundamental issues with filtering of spam
at the systems level, and it might be worthwhile to put in a bugzilla to
see if better spam filtering throughout the Mailman system can be added
in.

Risker/Anne

On 30 October 2013 11:59, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Kevin,
>
> What you propose is entirely reasonable. I support your idea of
> autofiltering spam.
>
> yours,
>
>
>  On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Kevin Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hey all -
>>
>> Unfortunately, we've become the target of some pretty serious spammers.
>>  I've been getting a very large number of held for moderation email
>> messages each day, and only one in a hundred are legitimate messages.  I'm
>> going to adjust our spam filters later tonight to hopefully let a higher
>> number of the messages that are legitimate through, but after that, I'm
>> going to start autofiltering the spam notifications out and not reading
>> them.  I hate to do so, but there are just too many of them.
>>
>> If you send a message to the list and it doesn't get through, please
>> email me personally so I can approve it.  Additionally, if you're a member
>> who has been moderated and send an email to the list, please drop me a
>> personal email as well, so that I can approve it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kevin Gorman
>>
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