
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

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 Regards, Mario On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:03:29 -0500 Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.net> wrote:
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 6/11/15 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:
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:
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

Hi Robert, On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:55:54 -0500 Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.net> wrote:
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? Regards, Mario

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:
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
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