[Debian-l10n-devel] Number of requests for DDTP

[Michael Bramer]

Hello

On 07/29/2011 10:58 AM, Nicolas François wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:00:04AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote:
>> On 07/29/2011 03:19 AM, Nicolas François wrote:
>>>
>>> We received (or we are still receiving) a huge amount of requests for DDTP
>> >from your mail (aronmalache at gmail.com).
>>> There are about 13000 mails currently in the queue to process your
>>> requests.
>>
>>
>> more general:
>>
>> - I point logmail at ddtp.debian.net to /dev/null
>>
>>    This should remove a lot of mails from the query
>
> Did you also cancel mails?
> Or was this change sufficient to get all the mails from Aron handled?

For the backgrund:

The Mailserver send every Mail to logmail and this alias go to me.

In the first way this was only to handel all mails von Aron.

>> - We receive a lot of mails to the ddts, too much are spam.
>>    In 2002, as I start the project, there are 1-2 per day... The time
>>    have changed.
>
> The amount of spam was manageable up to now. Yesterday, we really got much
> more mails than usually:
> http://i18n.debian.net/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain/exim_mailqueue.html

ok.

>>    I like to change something in this part.
>>
>>    The mail interface ist used from some projects. That ist nice. I
>>    like it myself.
>>
>>    A thought:
>>
>>    remove the 'callall' email adress pdesc@ and take some more
>>    user-unfriendly for spams.
>>
>>    something like: VAR-pdesc-VAR
>>
>>    With VAR are 8 chars, with 4 digits and 4 letters. The postfix and
>>    the prefix must be the same.
>>    ex: 13ab2c4e-pdesc-13ab2c4e
>>
>>    With this every user can catch a personel email adress. And if we
>>    get some spam, we can block this adress.
>>
>>    comments?
>
> This would anyway be useful.
>
> We would need to define how we switch from pdesc to this schema.

yes, true

First I like to play and code some lines with the new ddtss interface
and make some documentation.

Gruss
Grisu