On 2018-02-03 04:33:36 -0800, breamore...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 5:01:58 PM UTC, superchromix 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. [...] > > Seeing the spam postings in this newsgroup, I expect something > > similar may happen to comp.lang.python, soon. > > That's no big deal as this list used to have a wonderful signal to > noise ratio, now it would be better to report the noise to signal > ratio. I've just finished flagging up 45 consecutive messages on the > group as spam, all of them from today and all of them from the "Case > Solutions" crew. > > The downside of this list being blocked is that you'd all no doubt > miss my wonderful contributions :) Unless of course a new list is > opened, properly moderated, with a really original name like > python-users.
You seem to confuse the mailing-list and the newsgroup. The mailing-list
doesn't have a spam problem, and it is already (lightly) moderated.
The newsgroup does have a spam problem (as well as a few other problems,
like gmane mangling message-ids and breaking threads). Google groups is
an interface to the newsgroup.
There is a bi-directional gateway between them, but they aren't the same
thing.
hp
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