What's involved in moderating c.l.p? Would there be volunteers willing to do so?
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 00:43 +0000, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote: > On 2021-05-06, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:32 AM Paul Bryan <pbr...@anode.ca> wrote: > > > > > > Given the ease of spoofing sender addresses, and its propensity > > > for use > > > in anonymous spamming and trolling (thanks python-list-owner for > > > staying on top of that!), I propose to disconnect > > > comp.lang.python from > > > the python-list mailing list. Both would then operate > > > independently. > > > > > > > As someone who exclusively follows the mailing list, I selfishly > > want > > to support this, as it would notably improve the signal-to-noise > > ratio. But I'm aware that there are a number of good people who > > currently use the newsgroup, and those people would then be > > abandoned > > in the cess-pool. > > Counter-proposal that I have suggested several times before that > would > solve both these problems: make the newsgroup moderated. > > (Or, I suppose, create comp.lang.python.moderated and gateway it > to the mailing list, and disconnect comp.lang.python from the list.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
