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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!
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.
Lea, any update on this? Our moderators get overwhelmed by the amount of spam coming from the same e-mail addresses. Thanks!
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.
Thanks for your update Lea. Our moderators very much appreciate your effort!
Any update? When do we get this feature implemented and deployed? Please help!
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
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
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.
That's a very good point Holger. Can this suggestion be considered too?
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.
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?
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.
http://kenai.com/jira/browse/KENAI-3138