The upside of discourse, though, is that those messages can be permanently deleted by moderators. In contrast, the mailing list archives appear unalterable...
At any rate, those two messages (assuming we're talking about the same ones) don't appear to be spam, but rather a misunderstanding of the latest "submit feedback" link on PyPI. On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, at 12:09 AM, Matti Picus wrote: > It seems the spammers have figured out how to get onto discourse as > well. The last two messages on > https://discuss.python.org/t/pypi-user-feedback/11125/4 (on the python > discourse instance) are the first I have seen there. > > Matti > > On 10/10/21 7:37 pm, Hameer Abbasi wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Just my 2 cents: I marked a few of the actual spam e-mails on this and the >> SciPy-user list as spam on my client, and it seems many random e-mails get >> sent to spam now, from both the NumPy and SciPy lists. >> >> I’ve tried to pull as many out as possible by moving them to inbox, hoping >> it’ll get better, but it hasn’t so far. >> >> I’d very much prefer Discourse or GitHub discussions, of the two I prefer >> Discussions, but Discourse isn’t too bad either. >> >> With best regards, >> Hameer Abbasi >> >>> Am 06.10.2021 um 22:57 schrieb Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Coming back to earth on the original discussion, is there really no >>> way to moderate new users on the mailing list platform used by this >>> list (mailman?)? On the SymPy list, which uses Google Groups, we >>> moderate all new users, so that first time posts have to be moderated >>> but after that people can post directly. We have had very minimal spam >>> even in the queue (to be fair, I'm sure Google applies its own >>> filtering), and only one in recent memory that got through, due to the >>> moderators not reading the message contents carefully enough. >>> >>> Aaron Meurer >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:23 AM Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:07 AM <paytonmorriso...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> [spam] >>>> >>>> Okay, now, they're just messing with us. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Robert Kern >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ >>>> Member address: asmeu...@gmail.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ >>> Member address: einstein.edi...@gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ >> Member address: matti.pi...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: j...@fastmail.com _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com