Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-23, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > can someone explain to me why the mailing list (spam free) is not used by > everybody? 1) I perfer the user-interface offered by my NNTP client (slrn). 2) I don't want to archive many years worth of dozens of mailing

Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 May 2018 11:20:34 Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > can someone explain to me why the mailing list (spam free) is not used > by everybody? > > Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Brain damaged by facebook, AOL, M$, Google, yahoo yadda yadda into thinking

Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
can someone explain to me why the mailing list (spam free) is not used by everybody? Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ > > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-23 10:00:56 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2018 08:01:35 +0200, dieter declaimed > the following: > > >Maybe something went wrong with the integration of your NTTP server > >with the Gmane one? > > GMANE doesn't (to my knowledge) peer to

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-23 Thread dieter
"Peter J. Holzer" writes: > ... > I didn't read on Gmane. I read on my usenet server. But the broken > messages were all coming from Gmane. I am reading with an NNTP client connected to the Gmane NNTP server and and threading works - with very rare exceptions. The exeptions

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > I didn't read on Gmane. I read on my usenet server. But the broken > messages were all coming from Gmane. It is possible that the breakage > only occurs when Gmane passes the message to other Usenet servers, > although I have no idea how

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-22 20:42:43 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-05-22, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2018-05-21 15:42:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I switched from Usenet to Gmane mainly because references headers are > >> bit more consistent on Gmane, so threading works

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2018-05-21 15:42:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I switched from Usenet to Gmane mainly because references headers are >> bit more consistent on Gmane, so threading works somewhat better. > > This is interesting, because Gmane was

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-21 15:42:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I switched from Usenet to Gmane mainly because references headers are > bit more consistent on Gmane, so threading works somewhat better. This is interesting, because Gmane was the reason I switched from reading on usenet to reading the

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread C W Rose via Python-list
t may be >> that destroying comp.lang.python is their actual objective. >> >> Either way, a depressing state of affairs. > > The sad thing is, that your post is unseen, because of spam :S > > I also almost stopped reading c.l.python, because of enormous spam > leve

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-21, José María Mateos <ch...@rinzewind.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:00:41AM +0200, m wrote: >> I also almost stopped reading c.l.python, because of enormous spam >> levels. Do I have any option to read it without spam, other than launch >> my own f

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-21 Thread José María Mateos
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:00:41AM +0200, m wrote: > I also almost stopped reading c.l.python, because of enormous spam > levels. Do I have any option to read it without spam, other than launch > my own filtering NNTP server and do whack the mole game for myself? > > Ma

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-21 Thread m
their actual objective. > > Either way, a depressing state of affairs. The sad thing is, that your post is unseen, because of spam :S I also almost stopped reading c.l.python, because of enormous spam levels. Do I have any option to read it without spam, other than launch my own filtering

Spam levels.

2018-02-10 Thread C W Rose via Python-list
I've been reading a limited range of Usenet groups since the late 1980s, and until the recent problems in comp.lang.python had never bothered with any sort of filtering; it's easier just to ignore people. However, the sheer volume of spam in comp.lang.python finally defeated me, so I set up a