On 2024-05-03 21:41, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 03 May 2024 18:33:35 -0000 "Atri Bhattacharya" <badshah400@opensuse.org> wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
On Thu, 02 May 2024 19:43:36 -0000 "Atri Bhattacharya" wrote:
Inconvenient enough — also in my opinion pointless enough — that I would stop communicating with -devel (factory) and eventually stop contributing to openSUSE at all. Certainly more difficult than ignoring a few spam mails.
But we're talking about users@ and maybe support@ here; not other lists. And you haven't contributed here, or asked for advice, at all as far as I can see. What other lists do is up to them.
Hyperkitty begs to differ, for example (there are others, if you look back enough): https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/890365 based on <https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/support@lists.opensuse.org/thread/GDUB43XBWQPFH5ONS6WYWQCEARYHU3O4/#ABOWAV6MHDKMUVP4PTLPHWUOZ6G2OO2B>
Apologies, I forgot to check my archived mails :(
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Anywho, back to the topic, I do not see how we could have one kind of policy for users@ and support@ and a whole different policy for factory@, python@, etc.
Carlos has already explained how he does it on one list alone. So it is clearly possible. 'Policies' are a red herring - practicality is what matters.
It means a delay till a human can review the post and accept it. Anything from minutes to days. So far in the Spanish list only one post has been affected, and the delay was one day (it came just as I switched off for the night, and the next day the admin interface was offline). The rest of the hits were all spam, so I consider it acceptable. If there are regulars using the web interface, then this method I don't think is acceptable. The rule would have to be made more complex, and there is no documentation to the admin interface. I don't know if it is feasible to add exceptions. Basically: if User-Agent: HyperKitty* and From: *@gmail.com and not in a list of exceptions, then hold mail for moderation I don't know if it is possible. The other strategy, is removing the authorization to google users. Basically, a non subscriber can post just by logging to gmail. I have no idea if this is possible at all (it is beyond the powers of a moderator), but it would solve the spam problem. You have to ask the heroes team. Open a ticket. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)