This work was initiated in 2009 by Frans Pop and has been one of his numerous contributions to Debian. Thanks, Frans, for starting this as meticulously as you always did with your work in the project.
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 reports to pass to the review stage.
/!\ The batch job that makes reported posts available for review and removes posts classified as spam runs only once a week (Sundays).
There shouldn't be any need to review archives prior to those that follow, now.
year/month
nr. of reports
checked by (separate names/nicks/initials by a space)
Status according to Listarchive Review Statistic page:
date
reports
posts
reviews
removed spam
classified as
reported
considered
total
spam
ham
inappropriate
ham
inappropriate
2009年05月02日
16117
4364
284
291
170
121
0
0
N/A
N/A
2010年01月03日
46201
9063
4784
17289
16413
649
227
4533
174
4
2011年01月02日
52452
9571
6804
25491
23334
683
1474
6394
178
70
2012年01月01日
54461
9863
7038
27123
24431
699
1993
6637
178
96
2013年01月06日
55406
10022
7143
27540
24843
699
1998
6733
178
96
2013年01月13日
55414
10024
7144
27554
24857
699
1998
6733
178
96
2013年01月20日
55425
10027
7145
27564
24867
699
1998
6741
178
96
2013年01月27日
55440
10030
7147
27566
24869
699
1998
6741
178
96
2013年02月03日
55483
10030
7152
27587
24889
699
1999
6745
178
96
2013年02月10日
55501
10034
7153
27607
24909
699
1999
6750
178
96
2013年02月17日
55507
10034
7155
27611
24913
699
1999
6751
178
96
2013年02月24日
55507
10034
7155
27615
24917
699
1999
6751
178
96
2013年03月02日
55520
10035
7155
27617
24919
699
1999
6753
178
96
2013年03月09日
55521
10036
7155
27617
24919
699
1999
6753
178
96
2013年03月16日
55521
10036
7155
27617
24919
699
1999
6753
178
96
2013年03月30日
55527
10039
7155
27617
24919
699
1999
6753
178
96
2013年04月07日
55541
10041
7157
27617
24919
699
1999
6753
178
96
2013年04月21日
55541
10041
7157
27623
24925
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年05月05日
55548
10042
7158
27623
24925
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年05月12日
55554
10044
7158
27625
24927
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年05月19日
55556
10045
7158
27625
24927
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年06月02日
55567
10051
7158
27625
24927
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年06月09日
55585
10054
7161
27625
24927
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年06月16日
55591
10055
7162
27631
24933
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年06月23日
55602
10059
7162
27633
24935
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年07月21日
55640
10061
7169
27640
24942
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年09月01日
55658
10066
7170
27649
24951
699
1999
6755
178
96
2013年10月13日
55683
10070
7174
27673
24974
699
2000
6771
178
96
2013年11月01日
55692
10077
7174
27674
24975
699
2000
6771
178
96