On 2007-05-21, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> It doesn't all go through a central point - users like me who use a news >>> server to access the list submit articles through a local news server >>> using NNTP. While there *is* a single point of access for articles >>> pulled from python.org's news server and gatewayed out as email (and for >>> which the filters you mention probably ought to help), articles I see >>> have never been processed by this interface. >>> >> Which doesn't explain why only comp.lang.python, of the several >> newsgroups I read, seems to be so spam-filled... > > Maybe I've got a better news server, but I don't see much spam > at all in c.l.p.
To quantify things for curiosity's sake, I just scanned through the last 1000 postings in c.l.p. There was exactly 1 spam message and two replies to spam messages complaining about them. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Everybody is going at somewhere!! It's probably visi.com a garage sale or a disaster Movie!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list