Mailing list gone and cannot be created

That was odd. I could not reactivate it. I could purge the old list. Try creating it again.

I recreated it and it's back up including the archive (unfortunately also all the spam messages are there).

I got an email asking me join the mailing list through some page in Launchpad. This is strange since when I checked it, I was already subscribed.

Have all old members been automatically resubscribed to the list?

Yes, old memberships were subscribed, and the old archive was restored. "Purged" just resets Lp's knowledge of the list so that it can be recreated. Launchpad admins can delete spam messages from the archive if you can provide links to problem pages.

The spam messages can be seen on this page:

https://lists.launchpad.net/cuneiform/

They are the posts made by user daniel. The topmost one is this:

# Re: [Cuneiform] [Bug 640051] Re: Type mismatch: va_list and char*
    * From: daniel <640051@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 2010/10/11

And the bottommost is this one:

# Re: [Cuneiform] [Bug 324256] Re: Strange symbols instead '-' in smart text output
    * From: daniel <324256@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 2010/10/10

There are several of dozen identical spam messages in between.

they should all be removed now.

Cheers!
- Steve

Curtis, ta for the list! like huge sincere thanks! :-)

I still see them. For example this:

https://lists.launchpad.net/cuneiform/msg00772.html

That's ... surreal. I verified they were gone!!!
Leave it with us. Clearly the messages are being held somewhere else and being regenerated.

They are still there.

I tried running the script to delete the messages but in each case it said it doesn't exist. I'll file a bug about this and link this question to it.

The message I linked to above has been purged. Thanks for that.

However there are still a bunch of them. They are at the bottom of this page, the ones by user daniel: https://lists.launchpad.net/cuneiform/

Ok, I think that should now be it.

Thanks, Tom

We need to delete more messages. Note that the instructions on /InformationInfrastructure/OSA/LPHowTo/DeleteEmailFromArchive/ were updated. I think the delete can just be run with the new message list

Team: cuneiform
Message-ids 730 736 738 739 743 744 745 746 749 750 751 753 754 755 757 759 760 761 763 764 765 766 768 769 770 771 771

If we have trouble again, use the deleted-messages.py to get the list of already deleted messages. regenerate the archive, the call delete for the old list and new list of message ids.

It is fixed now. Thanks.