On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/06/2013 07:33, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> >> On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote: >> >>> Please can you do something to stop it? >>> Kill the MTA or something? >>> >>> This is ridiculous… >> >> As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand >> your annoyance, but just make a filter for [email protected] for the day or >> something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking >> us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is >> unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome >> progress with open arms. > > Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this > process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering that > will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise? > > Chris > > -- > Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting > - http://www.simplistix.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
Honestly at this point if anything like that happens the damage is likely already done. The vast bulk of them have already been sent. Starting over now would be more emails than letting them finish. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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