[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Carol Willing
Thanks Tim. On Tue, May 4, 2021, 11:13 AM Tim Peters wrote: > FYI, I just force-unsubscribed this member (Hoi Lam Poon) from > python-dev. Normally I don't do things like that, since, e.g, we have > no way to know whether the sender address was spoofed in emails we > get. But in this case

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Tim Peters
FYI, I just force-unsubscribed this member (Hoi Lam Poon) from python-dev. Normally I don't do things like that, since, e.g, we have no way to know whether the sender address was spoofed in emails we get. But in this case Hoi's name has come up several times as the sender of individual spam, and

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Jonathan Goble
I just got one now from the same person on the dependabot thread. Entirely in Chinese except for "GNU license" in the middle, along with an attached jpeg of a random SciPy-related tweet (according to Gmail's preview thumbnail; I didn't actually open the attachment for obvious reasons). On Sun,

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-02 Thread Jeff Allen
Yes, I got one from the same address today. Thanks for pointing out these are individual peformances: it was annoying when I thought it was spam to the list. Although Hoi Lam Poon is a real (female) name, it may signify a generated lampoon. Jeff Allen On 23/04/2021 16:38, Nathaniel Smith

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-04-23 Thread Sebastian Rittau
Am 23.04.21 um 17:38 schrieb Nathaniel Smith: I just got the reply below sent directly to my personal account, and I'm confused about what's going on. If it's just a one off I'll chalk it up to random internet weirdness, but if other folks are getting these too it might be something the list

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-04-23 Thread David Mertz
This reads like a much worse variation on GPT-3. On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 11:52 AM Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > I had I and still don't know what's going on. Mine was in a response to a > release announcement so it was extra weird. Here is what I received: > > I have now formally filed a final

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-04-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Perhaps an unconventional artistic performance ;-) But more probably some kind of loony with a lot of free time... On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 16:49:15 +0100 Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > I had I and still don't know what's going on. Mine was in a response to a > release announcement so it was extra

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-04-23 Thread Pablo Galindo Salgado
I had I and still don't know what's going on. Mine was in a response to a release announcement so it was extra weird. Here is what I received: I have now formally filed a final lawsuit against the manager of the python > program company, because all of him is also a criminal act, and GNU has EU >

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-04-23 Thread Jelle Zijlstra
I got a few of these too. I'm not sure anything can be done about it, since the mailing list is publicly archived, so anyone could send emails to anyone who posts here. El vie, 23 abr 2021 a las 8:42, Nathaniel Smith () escribió: > I just got the reply below sent directly to my personal account,