On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Angelico <[email protected]>: > >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Martin S <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Is there a point to still use Usenet? Last time I checked noise >>>> overwhelmed signal by a factor of something close to 542. >>> >>> Well, here you are at <URL: news:comp.lang.python>, in the middle of >>> all that noise. >> >> Or at [email protected] - a lot of the newsgroup spam simply >> doesn't make it across the bridge. > > Spam? What spam? > > There's a lot of hot air but I have yet to encounter spam.
That means you have good filtering. There are several levels of spam filtering happening. Fortunately, they do a pretty good job of catching most of it; I occasionally see junk mail on the list, but most of it gets caught and discarded. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
