Re: List Moderator

2007-05-21 Thread Neil Hodgson
Grant Edwards: > To quantify things for curiosity's sake, I just scanned through > the last 1000 postings in c.l.p. There was exactly 1 spam > message and two replies to spam messages complaining about > them. Looking at all my cached messages, I saw 9 including replies. Only one reply went

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-21 Thread Michael L Torrie
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:24 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > To quantify things for curiosity's sake, I just scanned through > the last 1000 postings in c.l.p. There was exactly 1 spam > message and two replies to spam messages complaining about > them. I'm seeing 2 messages a day, lately, to c.l

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-21, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> It doesn't all go through a central point - users like me who use a news >>> server to access the list submit articles through a local news server >>> using NNTP. While ther

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-20 Thread Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Grant Edwards wrote: > Maybe I've got a beter news server, but I don't see much > spam at all in c.l.p. Neither do I. Cheers, -- Klaus Alexander Seistrup http://klaus.seistrup.dk/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It doesn't all go through a central point - users like me who use a news >> server to access the list submit articles through a local news server >> using NNTP. While there *is* a single point of access for articles >> pulled from p

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Holden
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 19/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> The Python list managers know what they are doing, and they *do* keep a >> huge amount of spam off the list. The occasional piece gets through, but >> this is Usenet. It will, from time to time. >> > > Again, I appr

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 19/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 19/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Most of what > >> can be done *is* being done, which is why you see the relatively low > >> spam volume

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-19 Thread Steve Holden
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 19/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Most of what >> can be done *is* being done, which is why you see the relatively low >> spam volumes you do. > > I hope that I don't. I receive no less than 700

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 19/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Most of what > can be done *is* being done, which is why you see the relatively low > spam volumes you do. > I hope that I don't. I receive no less than 700 spams a day to my regular

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-19 Thread Steve Holden
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 18/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Is this list not moderated? I'm really not interested in Britney >>> Spears boobs. All the spam on this list is from the same place, it >>> should be very easy to filter. >>> >> Is it a list, is it a

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 18/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Is this list not moderated? I'm really not interested in Britney > > Spears boobs. All the spam on this list is from the same place, it > > should be very easy to filter. > > > Is it a list, is it a newsgroup? No, it's c.

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-18 Thread Kay Schluehr
On May 19, 3:51 am, Beliavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 18, 9:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > You're probably right, but this week has been pretty bad. Every few > > posts there's another porn or boob related link. Sheesh! > > > Mike > > I wish Google Groups were enhanced to le

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-18 Thread Beliavsky
On May 18, 9:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You're probably right, but this week has been pretty bad. Every few > posts there's another porn or boob related link. Sheesh! > > Mike I wish Google Groups were enhanced to let users block messages according to (1) "keywords" (2) average ranking

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-18 Thread kyosohma
On May 18, 12:36 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Is this list not moderated? I'm really not interested in Britney > > Spears boobs. All the spam on this list is from the same place, it > > should be very easy to filter. > > Is it a list, is it a newsgroup? No, i

Re: List Moderator

2007-05-17 Thread Steve Holden
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is this list not moderated? I'm really not interested in Britney > Spears boobs. All the spam on this list is from the same place, it > should be very easy to filter. > Is it a list, is it a newsgroup? No, it's c.l.py! In fact you could be reading this in a number of differen