Re: spam update

2008-11-20 Thread News123
Hi, Grant Edwards wrote: . . . It does penalizes legitimate users who post from Google Groups. They've made the choice to use the same posting conduit as spammers, and presumably they know the consequences. Hmm I made the chooice to use google groups because sometimes I like to write /

Re: spam update

2008-11-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-11-20, News123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't know aboug gmane. The UI isn't as fancy as Google's, but it's a way of separating yourself from the spammers. Finding a solution which doesn't penalize gmail users is still a good idea I think. Of course. One problem is that Google

Re: spam update

2008-11-19 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With some help from the python.org postmasters over the weekend I figured out why some seemingly obvious spam messages seem to be making it to the python-list@python.org mailing list. Messages gatewayed from Usenet don't pass through

Re: spam update

2008-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-11-19, Shawn Milochik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the time there was a lot of chatter on the list about people plonking posts from Google Groups. That's a solution, if that's where the spam comes from, but it penalizes the legitimate users who don't subscribe to the mailing list.

spam update

2008-11-18 Thread skip
With some help from the python.org postmasters over the weekend I figured out why some seemingly obvious spam messages seem to be making it to the python-list@python.org mailing list. Messages gatewayed from Usenet don't pass through the spam filters. Mailman simply distributes them. There is

Re: spam update

2008-11-18 Thread r
On Nov 18, 10:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With some help from the python.org postmasters over the weekend I figured out why some seemingly obvious spam messages seem to be making it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list.  Messages gatewayed from Usenet don't pass through the spam filters.