[admin] Spam in mail archive

Liam Healy lhealy at common-lisp.net
Sat Mar 29 15:54:26 UTC 2008


OK I removed the auto-accept for common-lisp.net addresses, so at
least that won't happen in the future.
Thanks for the advice.

Liam

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Ingvar <ingvar at hexapodia.net> wrote:
> Gary King writes:
>  > Hi Liam,
>  >
>  > I don't know how to remove that or how it got there... Drew?
>
>  I'm not Drew, but...
>
>  The From line claims it was sent by "blog at common-lisp.net" and most Mailman
>  lists on cl.net are auto-configured to let mail from non-subscribers with an
>  @common-lisp.net mail address through without moderation.
>
>  Unfortunately, I don't know a clean way to delete parts of a Mailman list
>  archive. Short-term, just deleting the file MAY do the trick (and may well
>  serve to confuse Mailman completely, so try this on a hot spare...). The fiel
>  in question is:
>   /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/gsll-devel/2008-March/000023.html
>
>  //Ingvar
>
>



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