Nick, This is very clear, thank you. --Deryck On Fri, 2 Sept 2022 at 21:25, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Listadmins mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To request technical changes for a specific list, please instead create a > task in Phabricator. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
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