On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 10:31:22 AM UTC+1, Tim Golden wrote: > On 13/04/2017 03:39, Jason Friedman wrote: > >> > >> However, it's simply a technical fact: the thing which we moderate is the > >>> mailing list. We can control which posts make it through from the > >>> newsgroup > >>> by blocking them at the gateway. But the posts will continue to appear on > >>> comp.lang.python which is, as the description says, unmoderated. > >>> > >> > >> TJG > > > > > > Thank you, Tim and Ethan and the other moderators, for performing that > > function. > > It makes the reading experience more pleasant for me. > > > > I looked, for the first time in a long while, at the GG mirror of the > newsgroup. Hadn't realised how much of that really nasty all-caps spam > we were blocking. (We set up some gateway rules when that started to > become a problem so we just don't see it on the mailing list). > > Most of the time we're just binning run-of-the-mill spam. Doesn't take > too much effort if you keep on top of it, but it piles up quickly enough > if you leave it for a bit! > > TJG
I routinely set all of the upper-case crap to "violent content" on GG just as a matter of principle. There's even been a couple of English versions lately but the filters have stopped them, well done :-) Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
