On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 5:21 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Il 19/11/21 14:00, Amir Sarabadani ha scritto: > > Lots of spammers send spam or virus or phishing emails to > > *-owner@ which mailman happily forwards to listadmins. But your server > > (e.g. Gmail), actually rejects those emails > > For those users, who were presumably happy about receiving less spam, > the probe messages themselves might look like an increase in spam. > > Maybe the probe message could be turned into something that actually > contains useful information, for instance: "If you see messages come > through the mailing list as expected, this may mean that your email > provider blocked some unwanted messages from delivery, for instance > spam: in that case, no action is required". Alternatively, that call to > action "Please examine this message" etc. may be made less imperative. > > However it may not be worth optimising these messages if only few people > are receiving them in spurious cases. > > I get a probe bounce once/month or so, usually for wikitech-ambassadors@ After forgetting about this thread, I almost filed a phab task, to ask if we could make the message clearer. But then I re-found this thread, and per Nemo's thought that it might not be worth the effort of a technical change (and thinking about future software-maintenance/translations/etc), I decided to simply document it in a new section onwiki. I haven't marked the page as "ready for translation" yet, in case more edits are needed for accuracy or clarity (please do!) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration#Mailing_list_probe_message
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