I only hope that the auto-filtering works as it should. Thanks for updating
us.

From,
Emily


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>  Lane Rasberry
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