Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-05-03 Thread Richard Bywater
I'm assuming that not all of us have been added in to help the effort as I can't personally see any management functions... Richard. On Tue, 2 May 2017 at 08:50 Arnaud Héritier wrote: > Did you add all of us as moderators Tyler ? > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Mark Waite > wrote: > >> I

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-05-01 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Did you add all of us as moderators Tyler ? On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Mark Waite wrote: > I agree with Baptiste. When I've checked on the moderator queue after a > flurry of spam, more often than not I've found that someone else had > already handled the messages which google groups had

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-30 Thread Mark Waite
I agree with Baptiste. When I've checked on the moderator queue after a flurry of spam, more often than not I've found that someone else had already handled the messages which google groups had detected as spam. Enabling first-poster moderation will block the spam which google groups fails to dete

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-30 Thread Baptiste Mathus
IMO, we should really enable, at least temporarily, first-poster moderation. I don't know what is the average subscription for people here, but I suspect it's ML, hence receiving spams before they possibly get deleted eventually from the GGroup archive. Hence no use. I'm in that case. Aren't we no

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-24 Thread Michael Hunter
I am willing to help as well. Timezone: GMT, BST. On 19 April 2017 at 21:33, Arnaud Héritier wrote: > Let's go > CEST/CET > Do we know how many new subscribers we have per day/week to see how many > we should be to moderate new members ? > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Joseph P wrote: > >>

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-19 Thread Arnaud Héritier
Let's go CEST/CET Do we know how many new subscribers we have per day/week to see how many we should be to moderate new members ? On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Joseph P wrote: > I would also be willing. Timezone CEST/CET :) > > > Den mandag den 17. april 2017 kl. 17.53.45 UTC+2 skrev R Tyler

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-18 Thread Joseph P
I would also be willing. Timezone CEST/CET :) Den mandag den 17. april 2017 kl. 17.53.45 UTC+2 skrev R Tyler Croy: > > > As you may have noticed, there has been an uptick in spam getting through > to > the Google Groups run by the Jenkins project. On some lists, these have > resulted in Google

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread Mark Waite
I'm MST as well, Colorado On Mon, Apr 17, 2017, 4:03 PM Slide wrote: > I'm MST always. I ❤ Arizona. > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017, 13:29 Richard Bywater wrote: > >> I'm more than willing to help out if it helps keep the mailing list >> free(-er) from annoying spam. I like Owen's suggestion so to t

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread Slide
I'm MST always. I ❤ Arizona. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017, 13:29 Richard Bywater wrote: > I'm more than willing to help out if it helps keep the mailing list > free(-er) from annoying spam. I like Owen's suggestion so to that end I'm > NZT (+12/+13) > > Richard > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, 5:37 AM Owen Meh

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread Richard Bywater
I'm more than willing to help out if it helps keep the mailing list free(-er) from annoying spam. I like Owen's suggestion so to that end I'm NZT (+12/+13) Richard On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, 5:37 AM Owen Mehegan wrote: > Me three. It seems like ideally we would have some folks dedicated who are > in

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread Owen Mehegan
Me three. It seems like ideally we would have some folks dedicated who are in different time zones, and if we each reviewed the moderation queue at the start of our workday, there would be minimal lag in posting. I'm in PST. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Slide wrote: > +1 for me as well. I w

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread Slide
+1 for me as well. I would definitely be willing to help out. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:26 AM Mark Waite wrote: > How much time do you think would be required per week for an active > moderator, assuming we could enlist 5+ active moderators? > > I'm interested, so long as active moderation does

Re: Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread Mark Waite
How much time do you think would be required per week for an active moderator, assuming we could enlist 5+ active moderators? I'm interested, so long as active moderation doesn't cost me too much time. Mark Waite On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:53 AM R. Tyler Croy wrote: > > As you may have noticed,

Regarding the recent waves of mailing list spam

2017-04-17 Thread R. Tyler Croy
As you may have noticed, there has been an uptick in spam getting through to the Google Groups run by the Jenkins project. On some lists, these have resulted in Google flagging the group and bouncing emails from those groups. This was discussed during our last project meeting (http://meetings.jen