This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Groups

[superchromix]

Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, 
started receiving spam messages several months ago.

Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups.  

When trying to access comp.lang.idl-pvwave, a message is now displayed, stating 
that the group owner needs to remove the spam, and can then apply to Google in 
order to have access reinstated.

However, old public Usenet groups like this have no owner.  The 
comp.lang.idl-pvwave group is more than 20 years old.  Hence, there is no way 
to unblock the group.

This is a serious problem, since the entire collection of postings going back 
many years has been blocked, no just the spam.  This resource is frequently 
used by IDL programmers.

Seeing the spam postings in this newsgroup, I expect something similar may 
happen to comp.lang.python, soon.
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Re: To whoever hacked into my Database

[superchromix]

hi all,

I've been thinking about learning Python for scientific programming.. but all 
of these flame war type posts make the user community look pretty lame.  How 
did all of these nice packages get written when most of the user interaction is 
 this??

Can anyone tell me, is there another newsgroup where the discussion is more on 
python programming?

thanks
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