On 6/11/15 Jun 11 -4:38 PM, Mario S. Mommer wrote:

Hi,

yes, you can add a corresponding regex to the ban_list option in mailman. A version of the instructions can be found here:

https://calmail.berkeley.edu/docs/mailman/regexp.html

Is there any chance this is disabled on cl.net? I tried to block all twitter emails using

^.*@twitter.com

which I believe to be correct according to those docs. But I get this error message:

Error: Bad email address for option ban_list: ...<full echo of ban list here>

Thanks, Robert

Regards, Mario

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:03:29 -0500 Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.net wrote:

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The ASDF-devel list is acquiring a bunch of bogus Twitter messages. [These aren't really spam, but are admin messages that are leaking onto asdf-devel.] Unfortunately, these don't all come form a single email address.

Would it be possible for us to simply dump any email from any address @twitter.com?

thanks! R

On 6/16/15 Jun 16 -2:29 AM, Mario S. Mommer wrote:

Hi Robert,

On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:55:54 -0500 Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.net wrote:

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On 6/11/15 Jun 11 -4:38 PM, Mario S. Mommer wrote: Is there any chance this is disabled on cl.net? I tried to block all twitter emails using

^.*@twitter.com

which I believe to be correct according to those docs.

I don't think it is disabled. Maybe you need to escape the dot in the email address, like this:

^.*@twitter.com

Does that work?

No, I tried and I get the same error as before.

I also tried adding a normal email address after a ^ as follows:

^osama-bin-laden@alqaeda.com

and get the same error, which leads me to suspect that the ^ flag is disallowed in this installation.

Best, r