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Bug: Feedburner Feed seems to contain SPAM

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Description

Describe the bug

Hey all, I've had the feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews for a while in my RSS reader and today I found it to show SPAM for shoes in Vietnamese.

Not sure what exactly happened, but it shows up now in my feedreader, see screenshot.

To Reproduce
  1. Subscribe to http://feeds.feedburner.com/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews
  2. See SPAM
Expected behavior

No SPAM

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by subscribing to the Feedburner URL in the issue and inspecting its current entries against the expected Python Software Foundation News content. Determine whether the spam originates in this project or the external feed service; done means the public feed no longer contains spam or the issue is documented as belonging elsewhere.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
content
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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