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Bug 178704 - No way to put known spammers on black list
Summary: No way to put known spammers on black list
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: www
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Admin (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal (vote)
Assignee: Jan Pirek
URL:
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Reported: 2009-12-16 01:41 UTC by Jiri Kovalsky
Modified: 2011-11-29 13:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Jiri Kovalsky 2009-12-16 01:41:33 UTC
It is not possible to block some e-mail addresses from posting to netbeans.org mailing list. These individuals then constantly try sending spam messages and our mailing list moderators must reject such e-mails over and over.

Please implement this feature to simplify list moderation. Thanks a lot Marco!
Comment 1 host 2009-12-18 08:38:11 UTC
It would also be good to not only block single e-mail addresses but also e-mail domains. This is because for some domains ALL messages sent to the NetBeans lists are spam.

Another even better option would be to allow blocking based on regular expression filters.
Comment 2 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-01-19 07:18:03 UTC
Lea, any update on this? Our moderators get overwhelmed by the amount of spam coming from the same e-mail addresses. Thanks!
Comment 3 leawang 2010-01-19 13:00:00 UTC
There is a corresponding Kenai improvement: http://kenai.com/jira/browse/KENAI-1685 for 20100129 sprint.  We will definitely trying to get this one resolved ASAP.  Thanks for your understanding and patience.
Comment 4 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-01-20 02:40:00 UTC
Thanks for your update Lea. Our moderators very much appreciate your effort!
Comment 5 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-02-03 07:05:01 UTC
Any update? When do we get this feature implemented and deployed? Please help!
Comment 6 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-03-05 05:26:21 UTC
Lea, I see some blacklist management feature [1]. Does it work for blocking domains too or only single e-mails?

[1] http://netbeans.org/projects/www/lists/nbusers/blacklist
Comment 7 Marco Walther 2010-03-05 08:15:02 UTC
Only email addresses at this moment. Please try it out and let us know. I can't do too much testing with my limited email addresses;-)

For `domains' or `regexps' we would need yet another UI set up to manage those.

Thanks,
-- Marco
Comment 8 host 2010-03-07 05:31:16 UTC
From my experience with the NetBeans mailing lists, spammers often send the same spam mail simultaneously to multiple mailing lists. Therefore it would be good if a spammer could also be blocked from several (or all) lists at the same time.
Comment 9 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-03-08 04:01:08 UTC
That's a very good point Holger. Can this suggestion be considered too?
Comment 10 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-03-08 04:09:57 UTC
That's a very good point Holger. Can this suggestion be considered too?
Comment 11 host 2010-07-13 08:08:32 UTC
A good example why regular expressions are truely needed for the spam filter: There has been a massive "attack" over the last time from accounts of the form "<SOME_NUMBER>@lenovo-4d596990.net" to the NB users list, i.e. 472 e-mails. As can be seen, this could be directly avoided via a regular expression based mechanism.
Comment 12 Jiri Kovalsky 2010-07-13 08:15:26 UTC
Marco, we badly need the Regex-based spam filtering. If we come up with as minimal UI proposal as possible, would you be willing to implement this RFE or would we just waste our time?
Comment 13 Vince Kraemer 2011-07-12 16:25:00 UTC
Since Lea doesn't work for Oracle or on Kenai anymore, we might want to reassign this to an actual person that can and might do something to resolve the problem...

I do not know who that person would be...  If I did, these issues would be assigned to them when I committed this comment.
Comment 14 Jan Pirek 2011-11-29 13:41:15 UTC
http://kenai.com/jira/browse/KENAI-3138