[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Carol Willing
Thanks Tim. On Tue, May 4, 2021, 11:13 AM Tim Peters wrote: > FYI, I just force-unsubscribed this member (Hoi Lam Poon) from > python-dev. Normally I don't do things like that, since, e.g, we have > no way to know whether the sender address was spoofed in emails we > get. But in this case

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Tim Peters
FYI, I just force-unsubscribed this member (Hoi Lam Poon) from python-dev. Normally I don't do things like that, since, e.g, we have no way to know whether the sender address was spoofed in emails we get. But in this case Hoi's name has come up several times as the sender of individual spam, and

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Jonathan Goble
I just got one now from the same person on the dependabot thread. Entirely in Chinese except for "GNU license" in the middle, along with an attached jpeg of a random SciPy-related tweet (according to Gmail's preview thumbnail; I didn't actually open the attachment for obvious reasons). On Sun,