So Gabriel and I have been fighting the good fight, clearing the queue
on the spam that comes into the geotools lists, which numbers anywhere
from 2-8 a day. But it feels like a never ending battle, so I emailed
sourceforge to see if there is any way around it. We consistently get
spam from the same set of email addresses, so I was looking for a
solution that would allow us to add the emails to a blacklist, or just
somehow automatically discard certain posts.
They got back to me (though I didn't realize it until they closed the
request, since my mail boxes are just swamped right now):
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=1383597&group_id=1
Basically it looks like you can set up a cron job on the shell server to
do exactly what we need with this program:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52614&package_id=121217
I'm not very good at setting up cron jobs and all, so was wondering if
anyone might be able to take a crack at it? Anyone with admin
privileges should be able to go to the geotools group section of the
shell server (and we can easily arrange the appropriate privileges I
imagine). This would save a lot of just wasted time for Gabriel and I.
best regards,
Chris
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The Open Planning Project
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Category: Project Mailing Lists/Archives/Services
Group: First Level Support
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Chris Holmes (cholmesny)
Assigned to: Erich Zigler (zigler)
Summary: ML services question
Initial Comment:
Hi, apologies if I'm missing something obvious, but our
list is obviously on a couple spammer lists, so that
the admin queue gets between 3-6 or so requests daily.
This means that it quickly builds up with requests
that I have to discard. This is obviously not a huge
deal, but it gets annoying, especially because much of
the spam comes from the same email addresses. I was
wondering if there's a way to automatically discard
emails from certain addresses, so they don't even reach
the admin queue. And/or do you have a spam filter in
place in front of the email list? I just end up with
far too many admin emails. I'm more than happy to deal
with the requests, but 97%+ of them are just spam. If
it was only one every few days it would be a lot more
manageable. I saw an option to automatically put
certain emails into the queue for admin approval, but I
don't even want them in the queue. My current queue is
something like 150 emails, and most all of them are
just spam.
thanks,
Chris
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Greetings,
We provide an application to do exactly what you described.
It is located here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52614&package_id=121217
You may setup this application to run from cron on the
project shell server.
Thank you,
Erich Zigler
First Level Technical Support, SourceForge.net
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