-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ed Lawson wrote:
| Ben Scott wrote: | |> When I tried to check the queue for the gnhlug-org@ list, |> though, I discovered that it has over 1800 messages waiting, dating |> back to April. It takes several minutes for Firefox to load and |> render this page on my computer, and even then it gets truncated, so I |> recommend you don't try it. |> |> I think it's a given nobody is going to sort through 1800 |> messages. Is there some way (perhaps something Bruce can do from a |> root prompt?) |> we can just purge this queue and start fresh? | | So you have discovered my dirty little secret. I forgot to mention | this to Bruce on Sunday. I had been approving messages and not | discarding the SPAM which averages a relatively large number a day | since the interface is rather slow for volume work. About a month | or so ago it became essentially impossible to use the admen | interface due to size of backlog. | | The only valid messages that are held up are those submitted from | e-mail addresses which are not subscribed in the system and those | have been very few. | | It takes a minimum of ten minutes a day to clear the spam. that may | not sound like a lot, but it is a chore. | | So yes, we need to get it purged. Sigh. I can't find a way to purge it in the version of mailman used by the gnhlug-org list. But I'm working on it - I may have to write a screen scraper thingy to do it. - --Bruce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDXjRu/TBScWXa5IgRAjTcAJ9DnTdJdZxx3QVZmvU65EEv+tyoLACfZqSl /Gn/NkX4arIF8YJryr00pKM= =UHvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
