Hi listadmins, Many subscribers to wikimania-l received a "You have been unsubscribed from the Wikimania-l mailing list" email today, despite the fact that we are certainly still subscribed (and are discussing these false messages on-list).
Has this happened with any other lists? --Deryck wikimania-l listadmin, [[User:Deryck Chan]] On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 at 14:30, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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