On 2/24/2010 1:52 PM Arnaud Delobelle said...
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
That seems to miss the point to some extent. If I post my recipe for
spinach lasagne here, is that spam?
Are they really good? Sounds good, spinach lasagne, I don't know a
recipe for them. Maybe you could
In article mailman.328.1267290305.4577.python-l...@python.org,
Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com wrote:
On 2/24/2010 1:52 PM Arnaud Delobelle said...
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
That seems to miss the point to some extent. If I post my recipe for
spinach lasagne here, is that spam?
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(That last response is aimed at a generic You, not Ben specifically.
Stupid English language, why can't we have a word for generic you?)
I thought the word was one.
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On 2010-02-23 22:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-02-24, Robert Kernrobert.k...@gmail.com wrote:
comp.lang.python.spam_prevention_discussion
Which doesn't exist and never will. Sorry, but
meta-discussions about the group are typically on-topic for
all groups with some few exceptions
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
distribution (to many
Aahz wrote:
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
distribution
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it,
In article mailman.194.1267045621.4577.python-l...@python.org,
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote:
Aahz wrote:
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic,
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
distribution (to many
Steve Holden:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail.
Spam is more commonly defined as UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email) of
which UCE is a large subset. Its just as much spam if its pushing a
political party or charity even though there may be no commercial
Neil Hodgson wrote:
Steve Holden:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail.
Spam is more commonly defined as UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email) of
which UCE is a large subset. Its just as much spam if its pushing a
political party or charity even though
On 2010-02-24 17:01 PM, Aahz wrote:
In articlemailman.194.1267045621.4577.python-l...@python.org,
Steve Holdenst...@holdenweb.com wrote:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those send these to ten
of your
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com writes:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those send these to
ten of your friends emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well
be).
That excludes things like the religious
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its distribution
(to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its content
(off-topic and unsolicited).
[…]
On 2010-02-24 18:39 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Steve Holdenst...@holdenweb.com writes:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those send these to
ten of your friends emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well
be).
In article 874ol65ep8@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
In article 87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its distribution
(to many
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's
commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in that
it's unsolicited by the vast majority of its many recipients.
Not quite.
I've read tens of
Steven D'Aprano ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au writes:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's
commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in
that it's unsolicited by the vast
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's
commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in that
it's unsolicited by the vast majority of its many recipients.
Not quite.
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
Joan Miller pelok...@gmail.com wrote:
*Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking all gmail
posts to this list?
On 2010-02-23, D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
Joan Miller pelok...@gmail.com wrote:
*Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
increased in the last week?
On 2010-02-23, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2010-02-23, D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
Joan Miller pelok...@gmail.com wrote:
*Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
Is it just me or has the spew from
Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking all gmail
posts to this list?
I did that a long time ago for all of the Usenet groups I read
and all but one of the mailing lists I read.
Wait, I misread the
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote:
And this has to do with python programming in what way?
Are you new? Meta discussions about lists are generally considered
on-topic for the list.
You, sir, are incredibly funny :)
Yes, I am. That however
this image is appropriate:
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Fetchinson
fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote:
Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
increased in the
In article 20100223182923.4d259d12.da...@druid.net,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net wrote:
And just to bring this back on topic, I did do a test and found that
splitting my mailbox between Python mailing list messages and Python
newsgroup messages did not indicate that that was a good
In article mailman.103.1266924766.4577.python-l...@python.org,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain da...@druid.net wrote:
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
Joan Miller pelok...@gmail.com wrote:
*Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
distribution (to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its
content (off-topic and unsolicited).
The
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
ten years ago was because of the diminishinig S/N ratio. I have always
felt that it was a
On 02/24/10 12:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
ten years ago was because of the diminishinig
On 2010-02-23 20:22 , Lie Ryan wrote:
On 02/24/10 12:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
ten years
On 2010-02-24, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote:
comp.lang.python.spam_prevention_discussion
Which doesn't exist and never will. Sorry, but
meta-discussions about the group are typically on-topic for
all groups with some few exceptions (e.g. non-discussion,
binary-only groups with
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