mailing lists, spam, and... burn it all down?

[Matthew Miller]

Spurred by a big recent spam attack
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10417...

I think we should:

1. For all lists with no legitimate traffic in the past year, deactivate
   immediately.

2. For any list with only light recent traffic, ask if they really need a
   separate list or if posting on another list like devel (or on Fedora
   Discussion! ... yes I have an agenda here) would actually be sufficient.

If there's no response, deactivate. Or, of course, if the list members
   say "yeah, we don't need it".

3. For any list with _just_ automated traffic (zombie meeting invites,
   bugzilla mail), ask if anyone is using it and if a list is the best way.
   (It might be!) But some are probably sitting there really doing nothing
   except sending automated messages into the void forever.

[Reon Beon]

https://www.linuxlinks.com/anti-spamtools/

[Reon Beon]

Let me fix that link for you:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10417

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 05:18:31PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Spurred by a big recent spam attack
> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/10417...
>
> I think we should:
>
> For all lists with no legitimate traffic in the past year, deactivate
> immediately.
>
> For any list with only light recent traffic, ask if they really need a
> separate list or if posting on another list like devel (or on Fedora
> Discussion! ... yes I have an agenda here) would actually be sufficient.
>
> If there's no response, deactivate. Or, of course, if the list members
> say "yeah, we don't need it".
>
> For any list with _just_ automated traffic (zombie meeting invites,
> bugzilla mail), ask if anyone is using it and if a list is the best way.
> (It might be!) But some are probably sitting there really doing nothing
> except sending automated messages into the void forever.

I think this is a good idea... but I fear it's going to be a LOT of
work. ;(

kevin

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:37:26AM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> I think this is a good idea... but I fear it's going to be a LOT of
> work. ;(

I suppose other than blocking immediate spam it's not urgent, but I bet the
_net_ amount of work over the next some number of years is actually
decreased. :)