(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 > _______________________________________________ > Listadmins mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > By sending a message to this list, you email all admins of all lists. To > request technical changes for a specific list, instead create a task in > Phabricator. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
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