[Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

Jim Dory james at dorydesign.com
Tue Nov 7 17:28:54 EST 2017


Just had to do it today. I chose method #1 - just deleted an URL that was
probably used for phishing from two messages.

https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20edit%20the%20archives%20of%20a%20Mailman%20list%3F

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Hal via Mailman-Users <
mailman-users at python.org> wrote:

> I run a low-volume mailing list (using Mailman 2.1.12) and I see that a
> few spam-messages have gotten through, which also means they're archived.
> I would like to remove them but all the info I can find when searching
> online are along the lines of "hard to do", "shouldn't be attempted",
> "impossible" and so on. Is this correct, or is there a solution?
>
> Perhaps it helps to say that for the past two months (September and
> October) each of those only contains one message each, and they're spam.
> Other months contain a mix of spam and legitimate messages.
>
> Hal
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