[Savannah-cvs] [801] bump the 'as of' dates; mention Savane config variables

[ineiev]

Revision: 801
          
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=801
Author:   ineiev
Date:     2024-08-29 00:21:08 -0400 (Thu, 29 Aug 2024)
Log Message:
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bump the 'as of' dates; mention Savane config variables

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/FightingSpam.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/FightingSpam.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/FightingSpam.mdwn       2024-08-22 09:54:52 UTC (rev 800)
+++ trunk/sviki/FightingSpam.mdwn       2024-08-29 04:21:08 UTC (rev 801)
@@ -85,15 +85,22 @@
 When $sys_watch_anon_posts isn't empty, copies of anonymous posts are
 sent to $sys_mail_admin; when $sys_new_user_watch_days is set, copies
 of posts of new users are likewise forwarded to $sys_mail_admin.
-As of 2023-02-23, $sys_mail_admin points to savannah-reports-private,
+As of 2024-08-28, $sys_mail_admin points to savannah-reports-private,
 $sys_watch_anon_posts is true, and $sys_new_user_watch_days is 34.
 
 ## Banned domains
 
 Ineiev is used to check the log of automatically removed idle accounts.
-When many accounts are created from some email domain, and exactly
+When many accounts are created from certain email domains, and exactly
 no active accounts in those domains exist, the domain may be banned,
 which means that such accounts are removed twice an hour without further
 delay.  Many in this context means that the numbers are comparable
 to the number of acounts from the gmail.com domain within the same
-period.  As of 2023-05-23, we have two such domains.
+period.  As of 2024-08-28, we have identified three sources of such
+accounts listed in $sys_banned_email_domains.
+
+Additionally, it turned out that valid users occasionally register
+with the same email domains as two spam account sources; however, the latter
+use clearly identifiable patterns for user_name.  In 2024-08-28, we listed
+those sources in %sys_banned_email_names, with the same effect as
+$sys_banned_domains, but only for those user_name patterns.