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Re: Spam on the mailing list

 

I don't know how launchpad handles spammers, can we ban some accounts on
the mailing lists we are managing?
I don't think restricting posting rights of everyone but team members is
the right way to solve the problem. It has to remain open access IMO.
Bruno

On 13 February 2016 at 13:25, Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jerome,
>
> thanks for raising this question. For both groups we
> have several administrators, including me, Bruno, Jan and
> I have added you also as admin. If there are also some
> more proposals, let`s implement them.
>
> If Launchpad will be too painful, we can move most of stuff
> to GitHub. I would like to escape it, because we have thousands
> of messages on LP, but if it will work too bad... Let`s see.
>
> Best regards
>
> Anton
>
>
> 2016-02-12 19:42 GMT+01:00 Jerome Duriez <Jerome.Duriez@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I personally consider the spams we're getting these days on the mailing
> list
> > as a problem, and not a good sign of vitality for the project when
> they're
> > more frequent than actual questions.
> >
> > Up to now, we had spams coming from:
> > 1. a Launchpad account which is not member of any yade Launchpad teams
> > 2. an actual member of yade Launchpad team(s)
> >
> > In the case of "2", I do not have so much idea.. (in the case we had
> > recently, I just got in touch with the member who since changed his email
> > account password)
> >
> > However, restricting to team members the possibility to ask answers would
> > solve 1. And make more meaningful the control we put on yade Launchapd
> > teams...
> > This might be possible according to what I read at the bottom of
> > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp. It seems it is the administrator
> of the
> > yade-users team who could do it ? Anton ? (even though I approve new
> > members, it does not seem to me I can perform the procedure described on
> > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ?)
> >
> > Jerome
>
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