RE: spam on the list - how are things now?

2009-01-21 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
s...@pobox.com wrote:

 We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on
 mail.python.org for a couple weeks now.  To me it seems like the
 level of spam leaking onto the list has dropped way down but I'd like
 some feedback from people who read the python-list@python.org mailing
 list on the topic. 

Sorry Skip - looks like it's not working. The Xah Lee spam is still
getting through ;)

Tim Delaney
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Re: spam on the list - how are things now?

2009-01-16 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen

Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:

 James Mills wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM,  s...@pobox.com wrote:
  We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on mail.python.org
  for a couple weeks now.  To me it seems like the level of spam leaking onto
  the list has dropped way down but I'd like some feedback from people who
  read the python-list@python.org mailing list on the topic.
 
  Agreed. It has gone down. Thank you for taking the
  time to do something about it :)

 Reading from gmane, there has not been much obvious spam lately.  Thanks.

I read this solely via the mailing list - and Yes, whatever was done has helped
a lot.

- Hendrik

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Re: spam on the list - how are things now?

2009-01-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16Jan2009 10:22, Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
| I read this solely via the mailing list - and Yes, whatever was done has 
helped
| a lot.

I use the mailing list. The spam is mch reduced. Thanks!
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Re: spam on the list - how are things now?

2009-01-15 Thread James Mills
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM,  s...@pobox.com wrote:
 We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on mail.python.org
 for a couple weeks now.  To me it seems like the level of spam leaking onto
 the list has dropped way down but I'd like some feedback from people who
 read the python-list@python.org mailing list on the topic.

Agreed. It has gone down. Thank you for taking the
time to do something about it :)

cheers
James
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Re: spam on the list - how are things now?

2009-01-15 Thread Terry Reedy

James Mills wrote:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM,  s...@pobox.com wrote:

We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on mail.python.org
for a couple weeks now.  To me it seems like the level of spam leaking onto
the list has dropped way down but I'd like some feedback from people who
read the python-list@python.org mailing list on the topic.


Agreed. It has gone down. Thank you for taking the
time to do something about it :)


Reading from gmane, there has not been much obvious spam lately.  Thanks.

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