Albert> For me declining means the rate of (non-spam) posts is steadily Albert> dropping over time.
I know this wasn't the main point of your post, but if you subscribe to python-list@python.org or read it via a mail-to-news gateway like Gmane I think you will find the ratio of spam to ham much smaller than if you read comp.lang.python via a vanilla Usenet newsfeed. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list