There has been an increase in spam on a lot of lists which are fairly low traffic (or zero traffic for nearly a year) where various teams of spammers subscribe to the lists and then post later in a mass set of items. It takes a lot of effort to clean up and it isn't productive use of volunteer or paid time.
I would like to suggest that for a project to close out all lists which have not seen traffic in 90 days with any announce lists set to moderated posts only. Each one should have their help page set to tell people to go to discussion.fedoraproject.org for future content.
Actually this may be a bug with the current mailman. Several of the lists I have removed spam from today all say:
This list is currently closed for inactivity. Please e-mail admin@fedoraproject.org to have it re-enabled.
Metadata Update from @zlopez: - Issue priority set to: Waiting on Assignee (was: Needs Review) - Issue tagged with: low-gain, medium-trouble, ops
[backlog refinement] Closing this ticket as solved, the mailing lists are already closed.
If there is another issue feel free to reopen it or open new one.
Metadata Update from @zlopez: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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