[Geotools-devel] Anyone good at setting up Sourceforge cron jobs?

[Chris H. <ch...@op...>]

So Gabriel and I have been fighting the good fight, clearing the queue 
on the spam that comes into the geotools lists, which numbers anywhere 
from 2-8 a day.  But it feels like a never ending battle, so I emailed 
sourceforge to see if there is any way around it.  We consistently get 
spam from the same set of email addresses, so I was looking for a 
solution that would allow us to add the emails to a blacklist, or just 
somehow automatically discard certain posts.

They got back to me (though I didn't realize it until they closed the 
request, since my mail boxes are just swamped right now): 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=1383597&group_id=1

Basically it looks like you can set up a cron job on the shell server to 
do exactly what we need with this program: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52614&package_id=121217 
  I'm not very good at setting up cron jobs and all, so was wondering if 
anyone might be able to take a crack at it?  Anyone with admin 
privileges should be able to go to the geotools group section of the 
shell server (and we can easily arrange the appropriate privileges I 
imagine).  This would save a lot of just wasted time for Gabriel and I.

best regards,

Chris

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The Open Planning Project
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