RE: Heads up: GMail regularly marking list messages as spam

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2024, 15:26 UTC
Message-ID: <030501daeccc$0747f210$15d7d630$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+t9iMyT8fAR_fvQXOer=ivLnNKDnH8g_M8iQiq7gdrnfG7aCg@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday, August 12, 2024 11:10 AM, Mike Castle wrote:

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>If you read the list via GMail, you may want to regularly check your Spam label for
>messages from the git list.
>
>I'm not sure what's up with that.  A handful of real spam had made it through vger,
>but GMail seems to be hitting a fair number of false positives lately.
>
>Sometimes it is just one message in a patch set.  Others, it is whole sets of patches.
>I didn't check to see if there was anything in common across the messages.  Maybe
>if anyone has a large batch, they can check?
>
>It would be interesting to see if this affects domain specific users as well (e.g.,
>Google itself).

What I think you will find is that some spammers use this mailing list to send spam. Most of it gets blocked because it is in HTML or RTF. However, various honey-pots and organizations like SpamCop detect the mailing list servers as the source of spam so the servers get black-listed or marked as spam. Unless the servers themselves filter out spam before redistributing it, this is going to keep happening.