[SPAM] RFC: SpamAssassin subject munging considered harmful :)

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> I noticed that a number of messages to the users list have been marked
> with [Spam] in the subjects since the list migration.  This appears to
> be due to the Spamassassin settings on bastion.  I think this subject
> munging is undesirable and would like to see it stopped.  Having
> legitimate messages sent to list members tagged as [SPAM] serves no
> good purpose.  If I were a list member I might wonder why my message
> was marked or why Fedora is forwarding on mail it thinks is spam.
>
> At the same time, it's worth noting that if the SpamAssassin settings
> are marking legitimate list mail as spam, they probably ought to be
> tweaked a bit.  If these messages had gone through bastion before
> hitting Mailman and were to a list with a rule to reject or discard on
> X-Spam-Flag (as I know several lists do, websites being one example),
> the messages would have been improperly discarded.
>

Anyone know exactly when this started?

	-Mike