On 10/04/18 21:06, C W Rose via Python-list wrote:
Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> wrote:
Welcome to python-list/comp.lang.python!
This isn't originally a Google group. Google just mirrors the old USENET
group, which is awash with spam.
There is also a mailing list version of this group (posts are mirrored
both ways) at https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
The mailing list has proper spam filtering and some moderation. None (or
barely any) of the regulars use Google Groups. Some people use USENET
directly and maintain their own extensive filtering regime to make it
readable. Probably most of us use the mailing list, because it's just so
much nicer!
-- Thomas
I fetch comp.lang.python from eternal.september with leafnode, and after
30 years of Usenet I recently had to install a news filter to remove the
garbage. After the initial flurry the filter doesn't need much updating,
but here's why it's necessary:
Feb 1 comp.lang.python: 39 articles fetched 73 killed
Feb 2 comp.lang.python: 43 articles fetched 57 killed
Feb 3 comp.lang.python: 19 articles fetched 108 killed
Feb 4 comp.lang.python: 36 articles fetched 122 killed
Feb 5 comp.lang.python: 45 articles fetched 79 killed
Feb 6 comp.lang.python: 68 articles fetched 93 killed
Feb 7 comp.lang.python: 32 articles fetched 118 killed
Feb 8 comp.lang.python: 41 articles fetched 100 killed
Feb 9 comp.lang.python: 47 articles fetched 201 killed
Feb 10 comp.lang.python: 44 articles fetched 137 killed
Feb 11 comp.lang.python: 36 articles fetched 130 killed
Feb 12 comp.lang.python: 13 articles fetched 79 killed
Feb 13 comp.lang.python: 18 articles fetched 65 killed
Feb 14 comp.lang.python: 34 articles fetched 72 killed
Feb 15 comp.lang.python: 15 articles fetched 63 killed
Feb 16 comp.lang.python: 14 articles fetched 72 killed
Feb 17 comp.lang.python: 50 articles fetched 62 killed
Feb 18 comp.lang.python: 37 articles fetched 35 killed
Feb 19 comp.lang.python: 58 articles fetched 57 killed
Feb 20 comp.lang.python: 71 articles fetched 46 killed
Feb 21 comp.lang.python: 63 articles fetched 95 killed
Feb 22 comp.lang.python: 35 articles fetched 91 killed
Feb 23 comp.lang.python: 38 articles fetched 91 killed
Feb 25 comp.lang.python: 51 articles fetched 153 killed
Feb 26 comp.lang.python: 70 articles fetched 89 killed
Feb 27 comp.lang.python: 64 articles fetched 68 killed
Mar 1 comp.lang.python: 98 articles fetched 133 killed
Mar 2 comp.lang.python: 65 articles fetched 110 killed
Mar 3 comp.lang.python: 38 articles fetched 113 killed
Mar 4 comp.lang.python: 31 articles fetched 16 killed
Mar 5 comp.lang.python: 51 articles fetched 104 killed
Mar 6 comp.lang.python: 46 articles fetched 40 killed
Mar 7 comp.lang.python: 18 articles fetched 71 killed
Mar 8 comp.lang.python: 44 articles fetched 85 killed
Mar 9 comp.lang.python: 43 articles fetched 65 killed
Mar 10 comp.lang.python: 16 articles fetched 39 killed
Mar 11 comp.lang.python: 25 articles fetched 59 killed
Mar 13 comp.lang.python: 43 articles fetched 186 killed
Mar 14 comp.lang.python: 20 articles fetched 76 killed
Mar 15 comp.lang.python: 32 articles fetched 33 killed
Mar 16 comp.lang.python: 16 articles fetched 79 killed
Mar 17 comp.lang.python: 11 articles fetched 69 killed
Mar 18 comp.lang.python: 4 articles fetched 70 killed
Mar 19 comp.lang.python: 10 articles fetched 67 killed
Mar 20 comp.lang.python: 42 articles fetched 33 killed
Mar 21 comp.lang.python: 43 articles fetched 77 killed
Mar 22 comp.lang.python: 14 articles fetched 35 killed
Mar 23 comp.lang.python: 37 articles fetched 39 killed
Mar 26 comp.lang.python: 139 articles fetched 144 killed
Mar 27 comp.lang.python: 83 articles fetched 86 killed
Mar 28 comp.lang.python: 39 articles fetched 45 killed
Mar 29 comp.lang.python: 12 articles fetched 29 killed
Mar 31 comp.lang.python: 67 articles fetched 125 killed
for totals of 2168 fetched and 4384 killed; that is, the group
is now 2/3 spam and the volume doesn't seem to be decreasing.
I don't understand why other groups gatewayed to Google Groups
aren't spammed, but from a limited sample they don't seem to be.
Will
I have recently given up killing all the crap directly on gg as I can't
be bothered any more. That is I would go onto gg and directly mark all
the spam as spam. Is this coincidence?
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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