[SciPy-dev] Scipy server suffering again...

[Travis Vaught]

On Jan 13, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2008 10:35 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'll keep on trying through the day, and will report if it  
>> eventually works.
>
> OK, I doubt this is going to work ever, I've gotten 5 '500 internal
> error' pages in a row.  The server simply can't complete the request,
> it seems.  The issue is the admin page for ipython-dev, where you
> approve/delete held messages.  It has tons of held spam that I was
> trying to flush and a single message I wanted to approve.  I only
> visit that page rarely, and if there's a setting to just have mailmain
> auto-delete anything that SpamAssassin marks, I'd be OK with that.
> But I couldn't find such a setting after looking around a bit, so all
> this old spam is accumulating...
> ...

Same thing happened to me while trying to approve a scipy-dev message  
the other day ... looks like mailman expects less moderation in our  
moderation (sorry, couldn't resist).  I'll talk with Ryan in the  
morning to see if there's another way to clean out all the garbage.

Travis