[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] haskell.org migration complete

[Simon Marlow]

On 02/12/2010 23:48, Claus Reinke wrote:
>> The haskell.org server migration is now complete.
>> Please let us know if you have any problems.
>
> Beginning this week, the majority of mails from haskell.org
> lists seem to end up in my ISP's spam filter. That would be
> Yahoo! - I wonder whether others here have seen a similar
> effect when checking their spam filters?
>
> I don't know whether this is caused by the migration, but
> it made me wonder about something I recalled reading
> about whitelisting mailing list senders with ISPs, and a
> little search found the following:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelist
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/forms_index.html
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html
> http://www.novablog.info/2008/10/21/5-simple-steps-to-improving-e-mail-deliverability/
>
>
> So it might be related to the new server. Is whitelisting
> something the mailing list hosting service should deal
> with, or is that left to the customer?

I'm fairly sure GMail at least whitelists haskell.org, because I get 
spam sent via the <list>-owner at haskell.org aliases that invariably ends 
up in my inbox, apparently bypassing GMail's usually very good spam 
filtering.

Cheers,
	Simon