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sr #109166: questions about importing a new mailing list (moved from sourceforge.net)

Submitter:  Simon Sobisch <mensch>
Submitted:  Tue 11 Oct 2016 07:50:02 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Project mailing lists Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 14 Oct 2016 08:33:24 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for chatting with us about importing the mailing list archive. I am not completely conversant with the import part and our resident master of the subject is on travel but will respond when he catches up.

I say yes please remove spam messages from the archive.  If you need assistance doing that then I can help with that part.  I maintain the listhelper anti-spam system for the mailing lists now.  You can read about it here  https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ListHelperAntiSpam/ .

I would run (and I am happy to help you with doing this) the archive through SpamAssassin and split it into two folders of spam and not and then review the result manually. That should do a pretty fair job of it. Not perfectly because time has passed and that will affect how the current rules categorize the older messages.  But it should be pretty good.

I don't think it is necessary to delete any of the SF headers lines.  I don't think it matters one way or the other.

The web frontend has an obsfuscator that redacts email addresses from web scraping.  Don't modify the mail messages.

There is no web interface to import mail archives. As the instructions say open a ticket like this one and one of us will run the import from the command line.

Because this is not a bug then for simple accounting I am closing the ticket.  But feel free to post additional comments here.  We will see them.  Or if you wish a more natural discussion flow please write to < savannah-help-public AT gnu.org > for a discussion list.

Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Tue 11 Oct 2016 07:50:02 PM UTC, original submission:  

Sourceforge provides a complete mbox file (it is about 26 MB for GnuCOBOL, Mailman versions 2.0.5 thru 2.1.9). This has some maybe nonstandard X-SPAM-Score and X-SPAM-Report entries for each message and messages that are really SPAM (according to the SF web administration these are not much).

I've read http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/ImportMailingListArchive/ and checked some archives existing at Savannah, which lead me to the following questions:

  • Can/should I delete the messages that are SPAM directly in the mbox file (and is there something I should take care - maybe there are tools that allow me to pick them instead of rewriting in the mbox manually)?


  • Should the (SF-specific?) X-SPAM-Score (single line) and X-SPAM-Report entries (multi-line) be deleted (again: directly or via tool x)?


  • How are the mail addresses that occur in the text like "sent from don.joe@servber.com" protected in the web frontend?


  • How would the import be done from project-admin-view? I only found the savannah-hackers part.
Simon Sobisch <mensch>

 

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