On 03/02/18 17:56, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
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
No, they are one and the same thing, except that this is automatically
blocked by the numpty moderators, whereas some things that I state on gg
are passed, other things aren't. It is quite clear that the moderators
are biased against people such as myself who are autistic
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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