On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:34:23AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
On 06/20/2012 08:09 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
>Seriously? My original message rejected because I am not subscribed? Not
>even held for manual inspection? Just plain sent to a sinkhole? Thanks.
>So I'm spending time trying to help and that's the reply I get? I'd
>suggest looking at the mailing list settings, because they seem medieval
>to me.
>
>(10 second pause)
>OK. Frustration vented somewhat, but seriously. Ccing list admins to
>reconsider the settings. Or perhaps you are receiving tons of spam
>otherwise?
Honestly - I have no idea/recollection about the spam (since
apparently it's going to a black hole of doom now and not being held
for moderation, hard to say :D) levels historically, and I didn't
set up the mailing list originally. Paul - I know a while back you
were looking at some of the lists with heavy-spam-patterns, was this
one of the lists in question?
That said, if it's anything like the other lists I am on that have
moderation for non-members, yeah, there's potentially a crapton of
spam. This list does have mails from
fedoraproject.org whitelisted
(with some explicit spammy addresses blacklisted, like postmaster,
etc), and I just added
redhat.com mails as well, since we can
probably expect that there are some redhat folks who may inquire
about fudcons.
Let's see what Paul has to say about if this was one of the lists
that got mega-spam.
Yes, this was a list that received a *LOT* of spam in the past,
directly equating to a deluge of moderation every day for admins.
That's why we don't auto-hold everything. Terribly sorry this
impacted you Stanislav, your help is certainly appreciated! Hopefully
the additional whitelisting of
redhat.com should help.
One thing I do with lists where I don't really want to read everything
but where I do pop in to help out occasionally: Subscribe and then set
to NOMAIL, allowing my posts but keeping delivery quiet. Perhaps that
might help as general guidance for occasional helpers?
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