R help - Sep 2016 - Have help list filters changed recently

To all:

r-help has been holding up a lot of my recent messages: Have there
been any changes to help list filters that caused this? Is there
something I'm doing wrong? -- I have made no changes  that I am aware
of. Here's what I get:

Your mail to 'R-help' with the subject

    Re: [R] with and evaluation [for example]

Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

The reason it is being held:

    The message headers matched a filter rule


Best,
Bert



Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )

Hi Bert: I saw that and let it through. I am not the one to ask but as far
as I know,
the filtering has not changed.


On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> To all:
>
> r-help has been holding up a lot of my recent messages: Have there
> been any changes to help list filters that caused this? Is there
> something I'm doing wrong? -- I have made no changes  that I am aware
> of. Here's what I get:
>
> Your mail to 'R-help' with the subject
>
>     Re: [R] with and evaluation [for example]
>
> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>
> The reason it is being held:
>
>     The message headers matched a filter rule
>
>
> Best,
> Bert
>
>
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip
)
>
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> On Sep 8, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> To all:
> 
> r-help has been holding up a lot of my recent messages: Have there
> been any changes to help list filters that caused this? Is there
> something I'm doing wrong? -- I have made no changes  that I am aware
> of. Here's what I get:
> 
> Your mail to 'R-help' with the subject
> 
>    Re: [R] with and evaluation [for example]
> 
> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
> 
> The reason it is being held:
> 
>    The message headers matched a filter rule
> 
> 
> Best,
> Bert

Bert,

Have there been a lot of cc's in your replies?

That is one thing that will tend to trigger the spam filters. I am not sure what
the threshold is and I am not sure that Martin knows, but that has bitten me in
the past on R-Help. As co-moderator with Martin on R-Devel, I have seen the
other side of it there.

Might also be the e-mail domain of one of the respondents in the thread.

I think that it is the ETHZ SysAdmins that tend to control the formalized spam
filters and heuristics.

Regards,

Marc

>>>>> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
>>>>>     on Thu, 8 Sep 2016 22:29:38 -0500 writes:
    >> On Sep 8, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at
gmail.com> wrote:
    >> 
    >> To all:
    >> 
    >> r-help has been holding up a lot of my recent messages: Have there
    >> been any changes to help list filters that caused this? Is there
    >> something I'm doing wrong? -- I have made no changes  that I am
aware
    >> of. Here's what I get:
    >> 
    >> Your mail to 'R-help' with the subject
    >> 
    >> Re: [R] with and evaluation [for example]
    >> 
    >> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
    >> 
    >> The reason it is being held:
    >> 
    >> The message headers matched a filter rule
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Best,
    >> Bert


    > Bert,

    > Have there been a lot of cc's in your replies?

    > That is one thing that will tend to trigger the spam filters. I am not
sure what the threshold is and I am not sure that Martin knows, but that has
bitten me in the past on R-Help. As co-moderator with Martin on R-Devel, I have
seen the other side of it there.

    > Might also be the e-mail domain of one of the respondents in the
thread.

    > I think that it is the ETHZ SysAdmins that tend to control the
formalized spam filters and heuristics.

    > Regards,
    > Marc

Thank you, Marc.

Additionally, and with a bit more details, the reason

     " The message headers matched a filter rule "

is really from the very last filter bank, which is 'mailman' and
to answer Bert's question wrt that: No, nor the mailman setup,
nor the R-help specific extra filters have changed during the
last months, probably not even during the last years.

The mailman filters however *do* look at some of the upstream
spam filter results (most of which are ETH wide), and these do
change of course, continually being adapted.

Martin