Re: [SPAM] Is the taxman coming for YOUR side hustle? Airbnb, Ebay and Uber to hand over income data directly to HMRC

Jon Ribbens

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Oct 18, 2023, 1:05:59 PM10/18/23

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On 2023-10-18, Brian Morrison <ne...@fenrir.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:36:21 +0000
> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Why the SPAM tag?
>
> Ray Banana is now using SpamAssassin in the news feed, it will put such
> a tag in the subject if it exceeds one spammyness threshold but doesn't
> reach the one where the article is dropped.

If that is the reason then this seems like a huge bug in the way he's
configured SpamAssassin.

Jon Ribbens

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Oct 19, 2023, 1:58:05 PM10/19/23

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On 2023-10-19, Brian Morrison <ne...@fenrir.org.uk> wrote:

> Well I don't know for sure, this is what I think is happening.
>
> Ray would know the answer better than I do.

Indeed, I've asked him and he says it isn't Eternal September's fault.
The most likely other possibility might be Mythic Beasts, I suppose.

brian

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Oct 20, 2023, 7:31:45 AM10/20/23

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In message <slrnuj2rgo.5...@raven.unequivocal.eu>, Jon Ribbens
<jon+u...@unequivocal.eu> writes

Yes, it's Mythic all right, not ES. Ray's strategy has certainly
cleaned up UK Usenet. Uk.misc might be useable again.

X-STUMP-Warning-0: Next header (X-Spam-Report) truncated!
X-Mythic-Source-External: YES
X-BlackCat-Spam-Score: 95
X-BlackCat-To: usenet-uk-le...@usenet.org.uk
X-Mythic-Originator: uid-1081-on-lynx.mythic-beasts.com
X-STUMP-Warning-1: Unfolded headers Received: Received: Received:
Received: Received: Received: Received: Subject: User-Agent:
X-Spam-Status: X-Spam-Report: X-Spam-Checker-Version:

Maybe threw a wobbly at the long url,

Brian

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Ian Jackson

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Oct 29, 2023, 7:16:26 AM10/29/23

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In article <Sgg07+5I...@b-howie.co.uk>,

brian <br...@b-howie.co.uk> wrote:
>X-STUMP-Warning-0: Next header (X-Spam-Report) truncated!

AFAICT what people in this thread are saying is that Mythic are now
running SpamAssassin on email to (some?) UK moderators' submission
addresses.

Presumably some spam is actually being rejected, which is probably
good (assuming the false positive rate is acceptably low). But
*tagging* (doubtful?) mails with "[SPAM]" seems simply
counterproductive.

Perhaps Control should have a word to find out what's really going on.

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Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk,
that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

Jon Ribbens

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Oct 29, 2023, 3:34:34 PM10/29/23

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On 2023-10-29, Ian Jackson <ijac...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> In article <Sgg07+5I...@b-howie.co.uk>,
> brian <br...@b-howie.co.uk> wrote:
>>X-STUMP-Warning-0: Next header (X-Spam-Report) truncated!
>
> AFAICT what people in this thread are saying is that Mythic are now
> running SpamAssassin on email to (some?) UK moderators' submission
> addresses.

Mythic deny this, and it was only a guess that it was them. While the
number of posts that this behaviour has been observed for remains at
one, I think there is little point in speculating as to what happened.
If it happens again then we can start trying to observe patterns.