webmaster forwarding changes

[Eric Kerby]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:04 PM, Ricky Zhou wrote:

> On 2008-01-09 09:49:44 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> I've been doing a little research on the headers that get through to
>> mailman and it seems we can do some spam filtering.  The question  
>> is what
>> should the action be when webmaster at fedoraproject.org encounters  
>> spam.
>> Should we just reject it, drop it, or hold it?
> Holding is probably the safest, to avoid false positives.
>
> By the way, we discussed a bit, and we're back to having webmaster go
> directly to the mailing list, with moderation for non-member posts.
> With this happening, I think we should be pretty on top of mailing  
> list
> spam.  It sounds like the spam headers could be handy for filtering
> occasional spam from list members, though (which I've seen happen).

I have been a list moderator for the webmaster address for half a year  
or so.  I guess the policy before had been one of limited initial  
deletion, but just holding email from non list members.  In my time  
modding the list, there have been a good number of occasions that I  
would have to "accept" a message.  Most cases were from users  
incorrectly asking for Fedora help via the webmaster address, but  
there was an instance that an email from a Red Hat employee got held :)

As a side note, I guess the setup of the list (or the webmaster at fp.o  
email) has changed since this discussion started since I am no longer  
receiving moderation requests.  Was this intentional?

Regards,
Eric Kerby
http://fedoraproject.org//wiki/EricKerby