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