(This could also be an attack vector, though.

Imagine a local conflict resulting in list admin A marking person B's posts
as spam on that local list, effectively silencing person B across all
Wikimedia lists.

Without mitigation against that [e.g. a global review queue of marked spam
before it becomes a global block], I would be wary of such a feature.)

  A.

On Sat, 8 May 2021, 02:05 Kunal Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/7/21 3:04 PM, effe iets anders wrote:
> > With the new mailman, I'm really excited to see global bans. Is there
> > already some workflow we're supposed to follow to mark spam? It would be
> > great if listadmins could mark stuff as spam and that would then trigger
> > global bans somehow if it happened multiple times. I know I can file a
> > ticket, but want to make sure we first arrive on a desirable solution
> > before we throw it into the dev's lap(s) :)
>
> Yeah, that would be really nice. In the past this has been proposed as
> "Allow list admins to train spam filters"[1] after GNOME patched their
> Mailman to do so.
>
> Upstream mailman3 has a bug for this as well[2], where they suggest that
> a plugin could be written for this. If someone writes said plugin and it
> works, we can definitely deploy/enable it.
>
> In the meantime I would suggest if you notice a new spam problem, post
> here, see if other list admins also say they're having similar problems,
> and then we sysadmins can take action.
>
> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244241
> [2] https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/88
>
> -- Kunal
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