On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:30:37 +0100, Tim Golden wrote: >> I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of >> spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get >> scanned before it sent to the list? > > I haven't seen any significant quantity of spam on the list for ages. (The > occasional one does get through although I can't remember the last). > > I always access it as a mailing list, and I seem to recall that the > newsgroup feed isn't filtered the same way as the mailing list is.
That depends upon your news server. I see a small amount of spam for this group, but not enough that it concerns me. If the mailing list is getting spam from the newsgroup, the solution is to either find a cleaner feed or add a spam filter to the gateway. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
