On 31 July 2014 23:39, Cristian Consonni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > <snip> > > > The fact is that the solution didn't work out in the end (we were > still holding in our moderation queue lots and lots of messages with > an high spam score) and so we are > changing the default policy for the list about non-member messages > from "Hold" to "Reject" (If somebody can make a case for "Discard" > over "Reject" please do so). > > This was quite frustrating, but we were unable to fix the problem is > some other way. I am sharing this to make sure I wasn't making some > sort of stupid mistake in the rules. I would also like to have an > opinion about "Reject" vs "Discard" as a policy for non-members > messages. > > "Reject" sends a message back to the originator, thus confirming that the address is a valid one. "Discard" simply discards the message without response. I too moderate a bunch of mailing lists. The amount of spam decreased over time when we stopped using "Reject" and moved strictly to discard. It was not sufficient to just do that - there are other bugzillas with suggestions on how to reduce spam including various filters - but it does make a difference. (I'm away from my usual computer right now so can't give you any links.) Hope that helps. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
