On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 4:01 AM, superchromix <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at comp.lang.idl-pvwave, > started receiving spam messages several months ago. > > Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google Groups. > > When trying to access comp.lang.idl-pvwave, a message is now displayed, > stating that the group owner needs to remove the spam, and can then apply to > Google in order to have access reinstated. > > However, old public Usenet groups like this have no owner. The > comp.lang.idl-pvwave group is more than 20 years old. Hence, there is no way > to unblock the group. > > This is a serious problem, since the entire collection of postings going back > many years has been blocked, no just the spam. This resource is frequently > used by IDL programmers. > > Seeing the spam postings in this newsgroup, I expect something similar may > happen to comp.lang.python, soon. >
Pot, meet Kettle. Most of our worst spam comes FROM the Google Groups bridge. If they cut the connection, I would not be sorry. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
