I just started having a lot of messages from weewx-devel land in spam.
It took a bit to track it down, but apparently somehow this got
rewritten (I think perhaps by Bill's client) from

> The transmitter value was fixed in commit 378cd18 
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/378cd18b42366391dba818dcd1d1581a509d46de>

to

The transmitter value was fixed in commit=C2=A0<a=
 href=3D"https://github.com/weewx/weewx/commit/378cd18b42366391dba818dcd1d1=
581a509d46de" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nofollow" data-saferedirecturl=3D"ht=
tps://www.google.com/url?hl=3Den&amp;q=3Dhttps://github.com/weewx/weewx/com=
mit/378cd18b42366391dba818dcd1d1581a509d46de&amp;source=3Dgmail&amp;ust=3D1=
634150760731000&amp;usg=3DAFQjCNE0_G29uab2hCQGkhg03Op_EJRSlA">378cd18</a>

which seems to wrap it in a google lookup with tracking IDs, and
triggers

        *  5.0 GOOG_MALWARE_DNLD File download via Google - Malware?

in spamassassin.  I was getting ready to report a false positive rule
when I figured out that the rule was not firing incorrectly.

Of course I realize there's no malware, but probably (non-weewx!) people
use this technique to sneak malware links past incoming mail security
scanners.

Probably there is nothing to be done, but I thought I'd explain in case
others are wondering why half of their weewx messages are ending up in
the spam folder.

Greg

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