To the python-list moderator

[Neil Schemenauer]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Terry Hancock wrote:
>
>> I got one of these too, recently.  Maybe somebody is turning up the
>> screws to get rid of spam that's been appearing on the list?

In the future, sending a message to postmaster at python.org is
suggested rather than posting to only to python-list.  What's
happening is that Spambayes is marking the message as UNSURE.  The
message that mailman sends to the sender is unfortunate.  The
"Message has a suspicious header" notice is misleading because the
user did not have any header in their message that caused it to be
held (at least normally not).

I'm not sure why many legitimate messages are being flagged as
UNSURE.  I'll look into it.

> I've been getting these about once a day lately.  at first, I suspected
> some kind of "you're posting to quickly"-filter with a manual "okay,
> you're whitelisted for another 24 hours" setup, but it seems to block
> messages mostly by random.  and some messages don't seem to get
> through at all.  slightly annoying.

Hmm, the message should eventually get through since it ends up
getting moderated by a person.  Maybe they are getting overwhelmed
and are making some mistakes.

   Neil