Usually mailing lists act like e-mail spoofers as far as SPF and DKIM is 
concerned. These two systems above try to minimize spoofed e-mail by doing the 
following:

SPF: Each domain adds a list of IP Addresses that are allowed to send e-mail on 
their behalf. 

DKIM: Each email sent by an "original" mail server is cryptographically signed 
with a key available, again, in the DNS.

When you send an e-mail to a list, you send it to the mailing list mail server. 
After that, of the server forwards that e-mail to the recipients, its original 
address is shown, therefore if Outlook checks for SPF records, that check will 
fail. An easy way to get around this is for the list to change the From field 
to something else, like "Mel Beckman via NANOG" and a local email address.

However, when you send that email, it may also be signed with DKIM: any change 
in subject (say "[NANOG]" is added) or the body (say "You received this email 
because you subscribed to NANOG" is appended) will also cause that check to 
fail. 

Typically the behavior of the recipient if one or both of these checks failed 
is described in yet another DNS record, called a DMARC Policy. Some set this to 
very strict levels (reject e-mail / send to spam), some others to warn the user 
(like what you saw?), and some others, knowing this happens, to ignore/notify.

This message probably appears because of the above SPF / DKIM / DMARC combo but 
I can't be 100% sure from the provided info.

In any case, this is likely not your fault. If you want to be sure, verify the 
contents of the e-mail against the public NANOG archive which is available over 
HTTPS. My guess is that nothing has been changed. 

Thanks,
Antonios 

> On 29 Mar 2017, at 03:22, Mel Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote:
> 
> Is anyone else getting this message on every nanog post today?
> 
> "This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear 
> to be. Learn about spoofing at 
> http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSpoofing<http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSpoofing]>"
> 
> I don't know if this link itself is malware, as it goes to the MS store, or 
> if something is broken in the Nanog Mail machine.
> 
> If it's just me, never mind. I'll figure it out.
> 
> -mel beckman

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