Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
I just received the email below as spam via
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org. However the email is clearly not sent
via the mailing list as it is lacking the footer and subject and also
am I not subscribed to that lists. It does however appear to be sent
via the Wikimedia mail servers:
Quite confusing, I concur. Are you a mailing list moderator/administrator?
Mails sent to list admin addresses (like
wikimania-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org) are routed via wikimedia servers,
but don't get lists footers.
As they spam to many addresses the To: headers doesn't always match with
the address from which you're receiving them. I have got mails at an
owner address with a different owner mail set in the To:
I am a list moderator, but not of wikimania-l. I was made mod of
daily-image-l yesterday and today I got <s>two</s> three spam mails.
The first one was from aock-en-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, the second from
wikimania-l and the third one from aock-en-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org.
I checked the logs, and it looks like you received that mail as
moderator of daily-image-l indeed. Although not visibile in the headers,
the mail actually had a large number of lists as recipients, both list
addresses and -owner aliases.
When I think about it, it is actually not that strange
that the mails
come through. The Wikimedia mail servers probably relay all images
from and to
wikimedia.org addresses, regardless of the originating IP
address.
No, they certainly don't.
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Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation