Re: spam issue

2017-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett 
On Tuesday 07 March 2017 01:00:41 Greg Couch wrote:

> On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8:08:44 AM UTC-8, Andrew Zyman wrote:
> > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ?
> > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one
> > that has this issue.
>
> If you do use google groups, please "Report abuse" for these messages.
>  And maybe google will get get a clue.  Wishful thinking, I know.

I don't get any more spam on this list, I send anything from google 
groups to /dev/null before it gets to /var/spool/mail/.  Much more 
peacefull now, for about 2 years...

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Re: spam issue

2017-03-06 Thread Greg Couch 
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8:08:44 AM UTC-8, Andrew Zyman wrote:
> Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ?
> I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has 
> this issue.

If you do use google groups, please "Report abuse" for these messages.  And 
maybe google will get get a clue.  Wishful thinking, I know.
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Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman 
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 2:28:04 PM UTC-5, bream...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 4:08:44 PM UTC, Andrew Zyman wrote:
> > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ?
> > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that 
> > has this issue.
> 
> The bulk having lots of block capitals and in Italian?  Been happening for 
> years.  Just use gmane, gives you access to hundreds of Python lists and 
> thousands of others in one hit.
> 
> Kindest regards.
> 
> Mark Lawrence.


thank you gents!
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Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread breamoreboy 
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 4:08:44 PM UTC, Andrew Zyman wrote:
> Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ?
> I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has 
> this issue.

The bulk having lots of block capitals and in Italian?  Been happening for 
years.  Just use gmane, gives you access to hundreds of Python lists and 
thousands of others in one hit.

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.
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Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Chris Angelico 
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Andrew Zyman  wrote:
>> Or the mailing list, depending on how you like to read things. The
>> list has some additional filtering and moderation, which I appreciate.
>>
>> ChrisA
>
>
> you mean on python.org ?

Yeah. You can sign up here:

https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The content is the same as on the newsgroup, modulo the differences in
filtering/moderation, so you can make a stylistic choice to read it as
a newsgroup or as a mailing list.

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Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman 
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 1:39:54 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Cholo Lennon  wrote:
> > Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this
> > group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam messages in its
> > interface. Try using a newsreader like Mozilla Thunderbird and point it to a
> > news server. In my case I use "news.aioe.org", it's free and it doesn't have
> > spam. The only minor problem is its retention policy (a couple of months or
> > so, but any newsreader can cache messages in your computer the time you
> > want)
> >
> 
> Or the mailing list, depending on how you like to read things. The
> list has some additional filtering and moderation, which I appreciate.
> 
> ChrisA


you mean on python.org ?
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Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Cholo Lennon 

On 02/03/17 13:08, Andrew Zyman wrote:

Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ?
I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has 
this issue.



Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this 
group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam messages in its 
interface. Try using a newsreader like Mozilla Thunderbird and point it 
to a news server. In my case I use "news.aioe.org", it's free and it 
doesn't have spam. The only minor problem is its retention policy (a 
couple of months or so, but any newsreader can cache messages in your 
computer the time you want)


Regards


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Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Chris Angelico 
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Cholo Lennon  wrote:
> Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this
> group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam messages in its
> interface. Try using a newsreader like Mozilla Thunderbird and point it to a
> news server. In my case I use "news.aioe.org", it's free and it doesn't have
> spam. The only minor problem is its retention policy (a couple of months or
> so, but any newsreader can cache messages in your computer the time you
> want)
>

Or the mailing list, depending on how you like to read things. The
list has some additional filtering and moderation, which I appreciate.

ChrisA
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