Re: Anonymous email users

[Anton Shepelev via Python-list]

Chris Angelico to dn:

> > Python mailing-lists are covered by the Code of Conduct
> > and monitored by ListAdmins. Thus, there are controls
> > which limit the impact which advertisers and others with
> > non-pythonic aims might otherwise exert!
>
> So long as there's a newsgroup gateway, those controls are
> toothless.

The gateway operator can have the usual anti-spam software
installed, and of course there is Gmane:

  

which actually subscribes users to mailing lists (on their
behalf).  Gmane's NNTP server is: news.gmane.io .

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Re: Anonymous email users

[Anton Shepelev via Python-list]

Sebastian Wells:

> The spammers won the spam wars, so even if you have
> someone's real e-mail address, that's no guarantee that
> you can contact them.

No so with me.  My e-mail address here is munged, but in a
very obvious way, and no, my mailbox is not overwhelmed with
spam.

I make a habit of reporting spam via:

  1.  https://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml
  2.  https://submit.spamhaus.org/submit/

They maintain blacklists of e-mail providers or notify them
of spam e-mails.  It helps.

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