I have also received the email from Wikimania-l. Only from there. Mailman / Posterious / ?? shows that I am currently *not* a member of the mailinglist.
KuboF Hromoslav st 18. 1. 2023 o 12:08 Deryck Chan <[email protected]> napísal(a): > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ > 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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