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
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