Javier nos...@nospam.com writes:
You will lose a lot of people asking/answering interesting stuff, and
maybe eventually the list will die.
I don't think it would die, but the chances are greater that it would
become insular and further disconnected from the Python community, and
hence far less
I find python group is filled with spam mails, is there any way to filter
these mails before sending it to the group.
I can't see this situation with similar user group, such as the jsr.
George.
On 20/08/2011 07:07, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Javier nos...@nospam.com writes:
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:23:49 PM Steven D'Aprano did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
But I'd like to return the question. What's wrong with nntp?
The sheer volume of traffic eats 99% of an ISP's bandwidth.
I doubt that very much, particularly if the ISP drops the binary
newsgroups.
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:16:50 PM Jason Staudenmayer did opine:
[...]
I do know it is ironic that I forgot to stop the footer for the one
reply. It's not my choice to add it but I was able to find a way around
that work policy for list emails. I'm a strong opponent of dropping any
You will lose a lot of people asking/answering interesting stuff, and
maybe eventually the list will die. Me (like many people with little
free time) seldom post in blogs/forums/mailing lists where I need to
register.
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
That is asking the user to take
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of spam
that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get scanned before it
sent to the list?
Jason
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On 18/08/2011 13:58, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to the list?
I haven't seen any significant quantity of spam on the list for ages.
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of spam
that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get scanned before
it sent to the list?
This has been discussed on the list a number of times before,
On 18/08/2011 13:58, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't
anything get
scanned before it sent to the list?
I haven't seen any significant quantity of spam on the list for
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but
the amount of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY.
Doesn't anything get scanned before it sent to the list?
This has been discussed on the list a number of times
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 09:51:04 AM Philip Semanchuk did opine:
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote:
On 18/08/2011 13:58, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to the list?
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote:
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of spam
that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get scanned before
it
On Aug 18, 8:39 am, Jason Staudenmayer
jas...@adventureaquarium.com wrote:
[snip irony]
Adventure Aquarium is America's Most Touchable Aquarium!
Featuring the ALL NEW Stingray Beach Club
Where you can touch and hand feed the gentle stingrays
To buy and print your tickets at home visit
Jason Staudenmayer jas...@adventureaquarium.com writes:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to the list?
I'm using nntp to read this newsgroup (through an academic
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com writes:
[...]
Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup
availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single
solution. Make it members only, but allow anyone to register with an
automated confirmation email and a
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:37:37 +0800
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com wrote:
Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup
availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single
solution. Make it members only, but allow anyone to register with an
automated
On Aug 18, 8:39 am, Jason Staudenmayer
jas...@adventureaquarium.com wrote:
[snip irony]
Adventure Aquarium is America's Most Touchable Aquarium!
Featuring the ALL NEW Stingray Beach Club
Where you can touch and hand feed the gentle stingrays
To buy and print your tickets at home
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:00 PM Ghodmode did opine:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com
wrote:
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
of spam that I've been
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Alain Ketterlin
al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com writes:
[...]
Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup
availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single
solution. Make it
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:38 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine:
Jason Staudenmayer jas...@adventureaquarium.com writes:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:14:39 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine:
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com writes:
[...]
Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup
availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single
solution. Make it members only,
In article
cak--mtqoq0scvofzfzfcd7jf9n1yjcpqyjcrdxgtxxpdoyc...@mail.gmail.com,
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com wrote:
Newsgroups aren't inherently spam-free. They're filtered. At least
that's the case with Gmane (http://gmane.org/spam.php).
My own ISP doesn't provide a news server and,
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes:
Or save work and find a public nntp server (or setup one, or ask your
provider), and use a news reader to follow the list (even thunderbird
can do this). No spam, no need to store messages on your machine,
auto-purge after a configurable delay, etc.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:58:04 +0200, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com writes:
[...]
Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup
availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single
solution. Make it members only, but allow anyone
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:15:59 -0400, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
[snip]
What is wrong with the mailing list only approach?
In the mailing-list approach, how do I search for prior discussions
on a subject? (I'm not particularly opposed to the mailing list,
I'm just an NNTP follower
On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Peter Pearson wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:15:59 -0400, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
[snip]
What is wrong with the mailing list only approach?
In the mailing-list approach, how do I search for prior discussions
on a subject? (I'm not particularly
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Ned Deily n...@acm.org wrote:
4. gmane (various formats)
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general
a. gmane.comp.python.general (non-Usenet group via NNTP)
All of the above allow both reading and posting. gmane does spam
filtering so, if you read
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com wrote:
Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup
availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single
solution. Make it members only, but allow anyone to register with an
automated
5963 unread emails.
Thanks python-list + other mailing-lists!
My recommendation to you is to setup a different account for your
mailing-lists. Alternatively setup some mail rules.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ghodmode
Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com writes:
Newsgroups aren't inherently spam-free. They're filtered. At least
that's the case with Gmane (http://gmane.org/spam.php).
My own ISP doesn't provide a news server and, although there are many
links for free open news servers, most of them don't seem
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:12:58 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine:
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes:
Or save work and find a public nntp server (or setup one, or ask your
provider), and use a news reader to follow the list (even thunderbird
can do this). No spam, no need to store
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:26:24 PM Peter Pearson did opine:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:15:59 -0400, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
wrote: [snip]
What is wrong with the mailing list only approach?
In the mailing-list approach, how do I search for prior discussions
on a subject? (I'm
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Jason Staudenmayer
jas...@adventureaquarium.com wrote:
On 18/08/2011 13:58, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't
anything get
scanned
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:30:37 +0100, Tim Golden wrote:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to the list?
I haven't seen any significant quantity of spam on the list for
I did check, though. I found a free, open news server with
comp.lang.python after 6 that didn't work. Unfortunately, the one I
found is read-only. I'll have to do some more looking if I want to
participate in the newsgroup. I set it up in Thunderbird.
I read and post to this and other
On 8/18/2011 12:14 PM, gene heskett wrote:
into a REAL mailing list. Subscribers only, or get past a GOOD captcha.
I just had an idea. Ask 'What is python? __ or What
can you do with a python?' with a free-form fill in the blank answer.
Look for 'computer', 'program' or
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 05:18:42 PM Terry Reedy did opine:
On 8/18/2011 12:14 PM, gene heskett wrote:
into a REAL mailing list. Subscribers only, or get past a GOOD
captcha.
I just had an idea. Ask 'What is python? __ or What
can you do with a python?' with a
Or 'Enter a Python keyword (search the tutorial if you do not know any)
'
Sounds good, but now you've trained the spammer who is without a doubt
watching this list.
Teach them Python before they can post, I like it!
Ramit
Ramit Prasad | JPMorgan Chase Investment Bank | Currencies
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes:
Short answer is to disconnect the the NNTP link and make this list
into a REAL mailing list. Subscribers only, or get past a GOOD
captcha.
Many of the more valuable contributors post via NNTP, which does not
require mailing list subscription nor CAPTCHA.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:00:40 +0100, Jason Staudenmayer
jas...@adventureaquarium.com wrote:
I'm a strong opponent of dropping any email with a
stupid footer spam.
By contrast, an excessively large sig (particularly an excessively large
sig without a proper separator) is something that's
On 2011-08-18, Prasad, Ramit ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com wrote:
Or 'Enter a Python keyword (search the tutorial if you do not know any)
'
Sounds good, but now you've trained the spammer who is without a doubt
watching this list.
Teach them Python before they can post, I like it!
I don't.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
I don't. If I want to get started in a language, I might well want to
read about it a bit, and maybe ask questions like what is a good book
for me to start with?
If I have to know the language to do that, well...
When I
gene heskett wrote:
But I'd like to return the question. What's wrong with nntp?
The sheer volume of traffic eats 99% of an ISP's bandwidth.
I doubt that very much, particularly if the ISP drops the binary newsgroups.
My ISP, Internode, has provided nntp for many years. For a while a few
Alain Ketterlin wrote:
Jason Staudenmayer jas...@adventureaquarium.com writes:
I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
scanned before it sent to the list?
I'm using nntp to read this
On 8/18/2011 10:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Now, an ISP might not have the bandwidth to supply all the needs of their
customers, that's a separate issue. But complaining that the problem is
specifically because they use bittorrent, as if it would disappear if they
changed to HTTP, is bogus.
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