Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-14 Thread BinĂ¡ris
2013/12/14 Amir Ladsgroup ladsgr...@gmail.com causes another problem: I usually receive e-mails with this subject because I'm a moderator in wikifa-l: Wikifa-l post from x...@yy.com requires approval and the text of the e-mail is the text of that e-mail which is obviously spam, so gmail

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-14 Thread Andre Klapper
On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 10:28 +0330, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of non-stop spamming. As Nemo already wrote, there are some (technical) comments in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56525 available. Another thing: GNU mailman

[Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
Hello, public mailing lists (even sometimes private ones) are target of non-stop spamming. Some mailing lists decided to discard any mails from non-members (that is not good, LGBT mailing has recently decided this but admins were have to do it because of spams and they don't want this) but some

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Recent discussion of this is at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56525 TL;DR: we have spamassassin but configuration is tricky; if you're a tech-inclined list admin, play with your list's X-Spam-Score config and let others know on bugzilla what worked. Nemo

Re: [Wikitech-l] Spamming in mailing lists

2013-12-13 Thread Amir Ladsgroup
We can run an analyze on known spams (that we are receiving) and ordinary mails and see what's the best score. Don't need an admin access and wait and see which score is better. i.e. I've admin access in several mailing lists but I don't like to test on them like lab rat Best On 12/14/13,