Cleaning spam from the debian-boot list

Now that the listmasters have created a working toolset to actually remove spam from the mailing list archives, it seems like a good idea to make a coordinated effort to clean spam from the list archives.

This page is intended to coordinate the reporting of spam in the archive for the debian-boot list.

What's needed is that a few people go through the list archive for every month and consistently report all spam that they see. That should get the messages listed for the next stage, the review by DDs of reported spam, and their eventual removal.

Please try to be as thorough as possible: try to report all spam, but also try not to report mails that are not spam. In general spam is fairly easy to recognize from the subject of the messages, so let's start there: just go through the thread index for a month, select suspicious messages, report them, and then either return to the index (using "back" two times) or go to the next message (using the "thread next" link). I've found that this works well if you look ahead a bit on the index page to check if there's a series of spam messages.

Spam needs to be reported by multiple people. But to avoid too many people doing the same months, please register in the table below which months you've checked. Let's start with the most recent years.

/!\ A message currently must have 5 nominations to pass to the review stage.

/!\ The batch job that makes nominated posts available for review and removes posts classified as spam runs only once a week (Sundays).

year/month

checked by (separate names/nicks/initials by a space)

2003/01

sanxiyn

2006/01

philbat dww fjp

2006/02

philbat dww fjp

2006/03

philbat dww fjp

2006/04

dww philbat fjp

2006/05

dww philbat fjp

2006/06

dww philbat fjp

2006/07

philbat fjp

2006/08

philbat fjp hwansing

2006/09

philbat fjp hwansing

2006/10

dww philbat fp fjp

2006/11

dww philbat fp fjp

2006/12

dww philbat fp fjp

2007/01

fjp dww fp hwansing

2007/02

fjp dww fp hwansing

2007/03

fjp dww fp hwansing

2007/04

fjp fp philbat hwansing

2007/05

fjp fp philbat hwansing bubulle

2007/06

fjp fp hwansing bubulle

2007/07

fjp fp hwansing bubulle

2007/08

fjp fp hwansing bubulle

2007/09

fjp fp hwansing bubulle

2007/10

hwansing fjp fp bubulle

2007/11

hwansing fjp fp bubulle

2007/12

hwansing bubulle fjp fp

2008/01

fjp fp philbat waldi dww

2008/02

fjp fp philbat dww bubulle

2008/03

fjp fp philbat waldi dww

2008/04

fjp fp philbat waldi dww

2008/05

fjp fp dww bubulle hwansing

2008/06

fjp bubulle fp dww hwansing

2008/07

fjp bubulle fp dww hwansing

2008/08

fjp bubulle fp hwansing

2008/09

fjp bubulle fp hwansing

2008/10

fjp bubulle fp hwansing

2008/11

fjp bubulle fp hwansing

2008/12

bubulle fp fjp hwansing

2009/01

fjp fp bubulle hwansing

2009/02

fjp fp philbat bubulle hwansing

2009/03

fjp fp philbat elmig bubulle hwansing

2009/04

fp fjp philbat elmig bubulle hwansing

2009/05

Status according to Listarchive Review Statistic page:

date

nominations

posts

reviews

removed spam

classified as

nominated

considered

total

spam

ham

inappropriate

ham

inappropriate

2009/05/02

16117

4364

284

291

170

121

0

0

N/A

N/A

2009/05/03

18297

4657

659

591

344

242

5

16

N/A

N/A

2009/05/10

24378

5253

1361

1732

1223

497

12

233

123

0

2009/05/17

27557

5355

2010

3666

3125

526

15

676

143

0

2009/05/24

29647

5402

2584

7434

6830

587

17

1801

159

0