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Bug 249526 - De-spamming gentoo-doc-cvs
Summary: De-spamming gentoo-doc-cvs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Mailing Lists (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Infrastructure
URL: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc...
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Reported: 2008-12-01 20:31 UTC by nm (RETIRED)
Modified: 2010-01-05 11:21 UTC (History)
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Description nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-01 20:31:33 UTC
A look at http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc-cvs/ shows how much spam we get every month. It skews the total commit percentages on a monthly and yearly basis:

1. http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-doc-cvs-per-month.xml
2. http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-doc-cvs-per-year.xml

We'd like to get the same kind of filtering the other commits list gets. Perhaps a filter that only accepts messages from @gentoo.org addresses and/or the committer?

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-02 00:36:35 UTC
Only the mails that come from lark should be accepted. List is very much one poster only even though from: appears to be the committer, source box is always lark.
Comment 2 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-02 19:53:06 UTC
While you're at it, it would also be nice to block everything sent to docs-team@gentoo.org which isn't bugzilla mail.

We don't use it as a discussion alias anyway, we have gentoo-doc@ mailing list for that purpose. And in my Spam folder I can see that I get a new spam message to docs-team@ every 20 minutes or so. :-)
Comment 3 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-02 22:06:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> While you're at it, it would also be nice to block everything sent to
> docs-team@gentoo.org which isn't bugzilla mail.
> 
> We don't use it as a discussion alias anyway, we have gentoo-doc@ mailing list
> for that purpose. And in my Spam folder I can see that I get a new spam message
> to docs-team@ every 20 minutes or so. :-)

At the risk of going off-topic:

:0
* To: docs-team@gentoo.org
* !^From: bugzilla-daemon@gentoo.org
/dev/null

has done the trick for me for several years :)

FWIW, I don't have any recipe against g-doc-cvs spam because I don't get any. Dunno why you get so much, but you can cook up a similar recipe for the g-doc-cvs list, e.g. on subject && message-id

Still, spam should not reach the list and/or the archives, which is what this bug is really about.

BTW, the reply-to for the g-doc-cvs notifications is set to docs-team, not really useful if those are completely filtered out.
Comment 4 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-03 00:33:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> While you're at it, it would also be nice to block everything sent to
> docs-team@gentoo.org which isn't bugzilla mail.
> 
> We don't use it as a discussion alias anyway, we have gentoo-doc@ mailing list
> for that purpose. And in my Spam folder I can see that I get a new spam message
> to docs-team@ every 20 minutes or so. :-)

I'd prefer this to NOT happen. Occasionally the docs-team@ alias is used for internal discussions that don't need to happen on a list, and it's much much easier to mail the alias directly than list each name. I'll probably need to send an email to the alias very soon, so it'd be nice if it still works.
Comment 5 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-12-03 03:29:03 UTC
Why didn't anybody ask ages about about avoiding the spam on gentoo-doc-cvs?
I've asked on multiple lists, several times, that when you see a spam, to report it to me.

In this case, the spammers are forging the source address, so I'll use the technique that I use on the main CVS list to block them out. If you want to get the message-id of every spam, I can nuke them from the archives as well.
Comment 6 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-12-03 05:39:12 UTC
The generation and blocking side is done.

I still need a list of all the old spams to remove them from the archive, please provide it.

As a very nice side effect, the GDP commits are not truncated to gentoo-commits anymore :-).
Comment 7 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-06-17 02:53:52 UTC
docs: got a list of those spams for me to smite?
Comment 8 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-01-05 11:21:58 UTC
I think this is fixed. We have no spam. I haven't seen any in months:

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-doc-cvs/date.xml

Whatever you did, you did well, so this is FIXED with mad haxxx.