Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that omission. What narrowly-defined, precise filter rule should be

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread rurpy
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:21:11 -0700 (PDT), ru...@yahoo.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: [I posted the following in another thread yesterday...] When you post from Google Groups you will sometimes see a checkbox above the edit window that is a cc to the python

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-22, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread HoneyMonster
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:21:36 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-22, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:07:20 -0700 (PDT) ru...@yahoo.com wrote: Re the specific problem mentioned, I just paste the original message into an emacs window, add the quote marks and paste back into the GG compose window. If you are on Firefox you should check out the It's All Text! plugin. Not

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:35:58 +, HoneyMonster wrote: snip Sorry about the moniker on the above. I used it by accident - it's one I reserve for junk trapping. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:21:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: Same here. Here's the rule I have in slrn's .score file: Here is the procmail one that I use: :0 Hir * ^List-Id:.*python-list.python.org * ^From:.*@gmail.com * ^Newsgroups: /dev/null This still allows people

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-22 Thread Ben Finney
Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that omission.

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-21 Thread Ben Finney
Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid writes: Posts made via the google-groups web site are a problem, and I plonked them all years and years ago... Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com writes: It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have plonked posts from there ages

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-20 Thread rusi
On Oct 20, 8:35 am, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/19/2012 06:43 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml?  For example,

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-20 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Sat, 2012-10-20, Michael Torrie wrote: On 10/19/2012 06:43 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml? For example, does Python have

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-20, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/19/2012 06:43 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml? For example, does

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:43:03 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml? For example, does Python have anybody who works for G$ who could

Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml? For example, does Python have anybody who works for G$ who could pull a few strings, preferably a Dutch national who has

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-19 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/19/2012 06:43 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening all, Is there any possibility that we could find a way to prevent the double spaced rubbish that comes from G$ infiltrating this ng/ml? For example, does Python have anybody who works for G$ who could pull a few

Re: Preventing crap email from google?

2012-10-19 Thread rurpy
[I posted the following in another thread yesterday...] When you post from Google Groups you will sometimes see a checkbox above the edit window that is a cc to the python mailing list (python-list@python.org) which is checked by default. If you uncheck that, you'll stop the double posting.