> CMIIW correct me if I'm wrong. Google Groups is a Usenet/c-l-py > gateway. Other gateways aren't contributing to spam. What are they > doing that G-Groups is not?
Actually Google Groups appears to be just displaying the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.python. The spam filtering which is the topic of this thread is applied to the mailing list python-list@python.org side of things. The gateway between the mailing list and the Usenet newsgroup is on mail.python.org I believe. As to what Google Groups isn't doing, it's not clear. I just visited this group and saw lots of spam. My guess is that we on the mailing list side of things don't see a lot of that because of the spam filter. It seems Google Groups makes it more difficult to report/eliminate spam than other more traditional Usenet newsgroup software might. First you need to view the message (even though it's frequently obvious from the subject alone that it's spam), then click the "More Options" link, then the "Report Message" link, then type something in the description field of the form they display and click the Submit button. After that, who knows how long it takes for them to send out a Usenet cancel message? Most people probably see the subject and move on to the next message. In short, it would appear that Google makes it harder to cancel spam than they ought to. Why they don't have spam filters similar to what's on Gmail to trap this stuff is unclear. Skip (Sent via Google Groups, so Grant will probably not see this...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list