Re: PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 3, 2021

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:03:54PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:34 PM David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 09:49:43AM -0700, Saad Benateigha wrote:
> > > Please try not to use PWN as a subject it sent to junk maik
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "PWN via PostgreSQL Announce" <announce-noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> > > To: "PostgreSQL Announce" <pgsql-announce(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 3, 2021 3:42:56 PM
> > > Subject: PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 3, 2021
> >
> > Saad,
> >
> > Thanks for the heads-up.
> >
> > Infrastructure team,
> >
> > Is it worth expanding this acronym so's not to trigger what are
> > apparently keywords having to do with script kiddies?
>
> But there is no "PWN" in the subject line?
>
> In general, the PWN posts trigger a lot of typical spam filter rules.
> But I*m pretty sure the subject isn't one of them... For example, the
> number of links, the link-to-text ratio, the large amounts of repeat,
> etc.
>
> The best recommendation for people with delivery issues is to update
> their subscription to pgsql-announce to not include PWN, and then read
> PWN on the website or through RSS.
>
> It has gotten a *lot* better with the new posting system, where it is
> now properly DKIMed and things like that, but it's still by far the
> largest source of spam-bounces we have. And I don't really think there
> is any further ways around that, while maintaining it the way it is.
> Some systems will keep learning more over time though, and hopefully
> they will learn to stop flagging it.

If there's some ritual I can do on my end that might help with this,
I'm happy to do it.

Best,
David.
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