it's up to us to police the list... any chucklehead can join and post... and many do! inside gmail, there's an option to report it as SPAM. If enough people click it , the message will automatically be marked as spam.
Unfortunately some of the major contributors to jQuery have had their e-mail addresses harvested by spammers and their posts WERE sometimes considered spam. -- Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ - יעקב ʝǡǩȩ ᎫᎪᏦᎬ