On 23Jul2020 10:39, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: >On 23/07/2020 02.12, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> I have never attended EuroPython and probably never will (I'm on the >> other side of the planet) but I'm still interested. Rather than >> subscribe to every conference thing, getting them here is very >> convenient. > >I have been to a lot of EuroPython conferences. [...] >I'm not disputing the fact that a conference can use the generic Python >users list for announcements. It's the fact that EP is literally >spamming the list with threads like "Opening our merchandise shop", >"Find a new job", "Introducing our diamond sponsor", and "Presenting our >conference booklet". That's just spam to advertise for the conference or >a company. Some EP announcements were cross-posted to multiple mailing >lists like psf-commun...@python.org, too.
Hmm, yes. For these posts, colour me convinced. I'd be happy to see these dialed back - they arguably belong on a europython announcement list. Things like "conference rescheduled", "attendance arrangements changes due to the virus" etc seem worthy of the main list to me, by contrast. Thanks, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
