[UbuntuWomen] Non-members posting! [was] Re: Fwd: [Blueprint community-1311-ubuntu-women] Ubuntu Women Trusty Goals

[Alex Muntada]

Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph:

> This helps address the problem of emails sent through launchpad (which
> will help), but Canonical has many servers, hostnames change and I
> don't know how we'd keep up managing the list of servers actively
> being used to send mail because that's all handled privately by
> Canonical.

The rules i just sent should solve that.

> (and for the record, I honestly didn't know we were discarding
> without notice all non-member mails, this was a huge surprise
> to me and I would have sought to address this sooner, had I
> known).

In my opinion, it's better to enforce the policy of non-members
post through rejecting messages, which at least helps people
trying to reach the list to understand what happened in a more
friendlier manner than discarding them. Spammers won't bother
to process those mails just to confirm the u-w address is valid,
and even if they do the policy will still apply and not permit
their mail reach the list members.

Moreover, the rejection mail can describe the nomail tip in some
detail, so it could even encourage more people to join the list.

> We could change the contact to the @gmail.com account that we
> have for the team which leadership has access to, but that pretty much
> shifts the burden of replying to me and I'd really rather not have
> that, I have enough to do :)

I think that the contact form send messages to all team admins
when there's no external e-mail address setup as contact. Would
that work better for you?

> I did like your idea of a trial run with turning moderation on for all
> unsubscribed users and adding some more moderators, and it seems like
> that has a lot of support from folks on the list. Even the most
> spam-ful email list I've admined for Ubuntu (ubuntu-users) topped out
> at about 20 spams per day and that was quite manageable for our
> moderation team. Most lists I manage for Ubuntu projects get 0-2 per
> day.

I second that too. Having people volunteering to do the job, even
if it's a manual job, is worth a try. Filters and moderation do
work well together, so we can do both.

Cheers,
Alex