A couple of thoughts: There are 3 sections of questions related to reducing spam, at the bottom of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mailing_lists/Administration if anyone has tips/answers?
I've added details on a useful greasemonkey script (written by bd808), that greatly speeds up the moderation process of discarding spam and adding addresses to the auto-discard list, in a subsection of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration#Tend_to_ pending_moderator_requests HTH, On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Totally feel with you. I had to fully auto-reject non-members on other > lists for the same reason. > > It would be helpful if more spam would be rejected right away (e.g. if a > message is rejected/explicitely ignored in more than two mailing lists, you > can ignore them elsewhere, too). > > Lodewijk > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> For quite some time I have been one of the people maintaining and >> moderating the different Pywikibot mailman lists. Over time the amount of >> junk (spam) coming in through the -owner addresses of these lists has >> increased a lot. My impression is that the people in charge of maintaining >> mailman are not doing enough to fight this kind of abuse. I'm so annoyed by >> this I decided now is a good time to stop maintaining mailman lists and >> spend my time on something more fulfilling. >> >> Maarten >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Listadmins mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/listadmins >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Listadmins mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/listadmins > > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF
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