Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-11 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Dozens of subscription attempts at unblock-pt-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/admindb/unblock-pt-l Paulo 2018-05-09 11:23 GMT+01:00 Sam Walton : > I take it back, we're now having the same issue with the Wikipedia-Library > mailing list, and the edit filter mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-11 Thread Rehman Abubakr
Yep, a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Possible_spambots_targeting_Wikimedia_mailing_lists Yours truly, Rehman From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Gnangarra Sent:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 9 May 2018 at 11:23, Sam Walton wrote: > I take it back, we're now having the same issue with the Wikipedia-Library > mailing list, and the edit filter mailing list spam has resumed. Is this > happening on every list? It happened on the Wikispecies list. -- Andy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-09 Thread Samuel Klein
This is being discussed in detail on listadmins@wikimedia -- all list admins should consider joining that v. low-traffic list. I hope we can find a solution other than banning the entire aol network... We should let aol know as well. On Wed 9 May, 2018, 6:28 AM Gnangarra,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-09 Thread Gnangarra
wikimedfia australia list is getting a lot of aol requests as well On 9 May 2018 at 18:23, Sam Walton wrote: > I take it back, we're now having the same issue with the Wikipedia-Library > mailing list, and the edit filter mailing list spam has resumed. Is this > happening

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-09 Thread Sam Walton
I take it back, we're now having the same issue with the Wikipedia-Library mailing list, and the edit filter mailing list spam has resumed. Is this happening on every list? Sam On 8 May 2018 at 10:57, Sam Walton wrote: > A couple of days ago we had exactly the same issue

[Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-08 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi all, We have been receiving tens of subscription to our mailing list ( wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org) from aol.com addresses. Today alone we have received over 30 subscription from that domain addresses and we find this very problematic. I'll need the help of a more experienced list