Re: Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam (was: EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track)

2020-08-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 22.07.2020 15:00, Christian Heimes wrote: > Hi MAL, > > would it be possible to reduce the amount of EuroPython spam on > @python.org mailing lists to a sensible level? This mailing list is a > general discussion list for the Python programming language. It's not a > c

Re: Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam (was: EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track)

2020-07-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
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

Re: Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam

2020-07-23 Thread dn via Python-list
On 23/07/2020 20:39, Christian Heimes wrote: On 23/07/2020 02.12, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 22Jul2020 15:00, Christian Heimes wrote: ... would it be possible to reduce the amount of EuroPython spam on @python.org mailing lists to a sensible level? This mailing list is a general discussion

Re: Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam (was: EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track)

2020-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
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...@

Re: Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam (was: EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track)

2020-07-23 Thread Christian Heimes
On 23/07/2020 02.12, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 22Jul2020 15:00, Christian Heimes wrote: >> Hi MAL, >> >> would it be possible to reduce the amount of EuroPython spam on >> @python.org mailing lists to a sensible level? This mailing list is a >> general discussio

Re: Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam (was: EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track)

2020-07-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22Jul2020 15:00, Christian Heimes wrote: >Hi MAL, > >would it be possible to reduce the amount of EuroPython spam on >@python.org mailing lists to a sensible level? This mailing list is a >general discussion list for the Python programming language. It's not a >confer

Spam, bacon, sausage and Spam (was: EuroPython 2020: Data Science Track)

2020-07-22 Thread Christian Heimes
Hi MAL, would it be possible to reduce the amount of EuroPython spam on @python.org mailing lists to a sensible level? This mailing list is a general discussion list for the Python programming language. It's not a conference advertisement list. Something between 1 to 3 mails per conferenc

RE: [SPAM] Type error: not enough arguments for format string

2018-09-19 Thread David Raymond
, September 19, 2018 12:12 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: [SPAM] Type error: not enough arguments for format string Importance: Low I'm just trying to follow along with the logging tutorial documentation and I am getting this error: import logging logging.basicConfig(format= '%

Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-23, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > can someone explain to me why the mailing list (spam free) is not used by > everybody? 1) I perfer the user-interface offered by my NNTP client (slrn). 2) I don't want to archive many years worth of dozens of mailing lists (I l

Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 May 2018 11:20:34 Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > can someone explain to me why the mailing list (spam free) is not used > by everybody? > > Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Brain damaged by facebook, AOL, M$, Google, yahoo yadda yadda

Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
can someone explain to me why the mailing list (spam free) is not used by everybody? Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ > > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-23 10:00:56 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2018 08:01:35 +0200, dieter declaimed > the following: > > >Maybe something went wrong with the integration of your NTTP server > >with the Gmane one? > > GMANE doesn't (to my knowledge) peer to NNTP servers. It provid

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread dieter
"Peter J. Holzer" writes: > ... > I didn't read on Gmane. I read on my usenet server. But the broken > messages were all coming from Gmane. I am reading with an NNTP client connected to the Gmane NNTP server and and threading works - with very rare exceptions. The exeptions are so rare, that they

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > I didn't read on Gmane. I read on my usenet server. But the broken > messages were all coming from Gmane. It is possible that the breakage > only occurs when Gmane passes the message to other Usenet servers, > although I have no idea how that could happen (

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-22 20:42:43 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-05-22, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2018-05-21 15:42:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I switched from Usenet to Gmane mainly because references headers are > >> bit more consistent on Gmane, so threading works somewhat better. > > >

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-22, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2018-05-21 15:42:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I switched from Usenet to Gmane mainly because references headers are >> bit more consistent on Gmane, so threading works somewhat better. > > This is interesting, because Gmane was the reason I switched

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-21 15:42:28 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I switched from Usenet to Gmane mainly because references headers are > bit more consistent on Gmane, so threading works somewhat better. This is interesting, because Gmane was the reason I switched from reading on usenet to reading the mailingl

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-22 Thread C W Rose via Python-list
m wrote: > W dniu 10.02.2018 o 15:57, C W Rose pisze: >> No other groups (in the limited set which I read) have the problem, >> and I don't understand why the spammers neither spam a range of >> groups, nor change their adddresses more frequently. It may be >> tha

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-05-21, José María Mateos wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:00:41AM +0200, m wrote: >> I also almost stopped reading c.l.python, because of enormous spam >> levels. Do I have any option to read it without spam, other than launch >> my own filtering NNTP server and d

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-21 Thread José María Mateos
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:00:41AM +0200, m wrote: > I also almost stopped reading c.l.python, because of enormous spam > levels. Do I have any option to read it without spam, other than launch > my own filtering NNTP server and do whack the mole game for myself? > > Maybe

Re: Spam levels.

2018-05-21 Thread m
W dniu 10.02.2018 o 15:57, C W Rose pisze: > No other groups (in the limited set which I read) have the problem, > and I don't understand why the spammers neither spam a range of > groups, nor change their adddresses more frequently. It may be > that destroying comp.lang.pytho

Spam levels.

2018-02-10 Thread C W Rose via Python-list
I've been reading a limited range of Usenet groups since the late 1980s, and until the recent problems in comp.lang.python had never bothered with any sort of filtering; it's easier just to ignore people. However, the sheer volume of spam in comp.lang.python finally defeated me, so

Re: Spam

2017-10-03 Thread alister via Python-list
> They are literally criminals, they use computer viruses and malware to > hijack people's computers to send their spam, and you want to trust them > and buy from them? this was probably a "Drive By" posy to get the original spam more attention & possibly bypass spa

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-08-13 Thread Grant Edwards
own up, the rest might take the hint. It would be really nice if someone could convice people to stopped replying to spam posted from googlegroups. That way people who've taken the common-sense approach and plonked all postings from google groups wouldn't have to see them. -- Grant

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-08-12 Thread J. Clarke
In article , skybuck2...@hotmail.com says... > > I see two solutions: > > 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a > blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post and upload > and such. > > or > > 2. We counter-attack by installing a special t

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-08-06 Thread Gerd Niemetz
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017 07:13:51 UTC+2 schrieb Rustom Mody: > Of late there has been an explosion of spam > Thought it was only a google-groups (USENET?) issue and would be barred from > the mailing list. > > But then find its there in the mailing list archives as well &g

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
nto the mail.python.org system. Behind that is a SpamBayes instance to pick up any loose ends. The Usenet gateway feeds into the system behind everything except the SpamBayes instance. It gets only sporadic attention from me. If I'm not paying attention, stuff which starts to "leak"

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-27 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:44:22 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-07-25, Wildman via Python-list wrote: > >> The posts are being made through Google Groups. Forwarding >> the posts with headers to groups-ab...@google.com might help. > > I never has in the past. I (and many others) have for y

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-26 Thread Gregory Ewing
breamore...@gmail.com wrote: Hence why I asked a couple of weeks back why we don't just bin the existing group and start afresh with a new, properly moderated group. Someone would need to volunteer to be the moderator. Also, moderation is something of a consenting-adults thing on usenet. It's

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-26 Thread breamoreboy
On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 8:29:07 AM UTC+1, Tim Golden wrote: > On 25/07/2017 06:13, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Of late there has been an explosion of spam > > Thought it was only a google-groups (USENET?) issue and would be barred > > from the mailing list. > > >

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-26 Thread Tim Golden
On 25/07/2017 06:13, Rustom Mody wrote: Of late there has been an explosion of spam Thought it was only a google-groups (USENET?) issue and would be barred from the mailing list. But then find its there in the mailing list archives as well Typical example: https://mail.python.org/pipermail

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-25 Thread Michael F. Stemper
On 2017-07-25 10:03, alister wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:29:56 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:50 PM, wrote: I see two solutions: 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post a

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-07-25, Wildman via Python-list wrote: > The posts are being made through Google Groups. Forwarding > the posts with headers to groups-ab...@google.com might help. I never has in the past. I (and many others) have for years and years been plonking all posts made through Google Groups.

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-25 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 23:01:43 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: >> Since spammers are unlikely to be choosy about whom they spam: >> Tentative conclusion: Something about the USENET-ML gateway is more leaky >> out here than elsewhere > > It could be a

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-25 Thread alister via Python-list
On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:29:56 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:50 PM, wrote: >> I see two solutions: >> >> 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a >> blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post and >> upload and such. >>

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-25 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:50 PM, wrote: > I see two solutions: > > 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a > blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post and upload > and such. > > or > > 2. We counter-attack by installing a special tool, so we

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-24 Thread skybuck2000
I see two solutions: 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post and upload and such. or 2. We counter-attack by installing a special tool, so we all denial of service attack the source of the message,

Re: Recent Spam problem

2017-07-24 Thread Paul Rubin
Rustom Mody writes: > Since spammers are unlikely to be choosy about whom they spam: > Tentative conclusion: Something about the USENET-ML gateway is more leaky > out here than elsewhere It could be a sort-of DOS attack by some disgruntled idiot. I wonder if the email address in t

Recent Spam problem

2017-07-24 Thread Rustom Mody
Of late there has been an explosion of spam Thought it was only a google-groups (USENET?) issue and would be barred from the mailing list. But then find its there in the mailing list archives as well Typical example: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-July/724085.html What

Re: Spammy spam spam spam spam

2017-07-04 Thread Tim Golden
On 04/07/2017 16:40, Steve D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:55 pm, Case Solution & Analysis wrote: Our e-mail address is CASESOLUTIONSCENTRE (AT) GMAIL (DOT) COM. Please replace (at) by @ and (dot) by . Since we don't yet have a protocol for transmitting a punch to the face over TCP/IP,

Re: Spammy spam spam spam spam

2017-07-04 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 10:55 pm, Case Solution & Analysis wrote: > Our e-mail address is CASESOLUTIONSCENTRE (AT) GMAIL (DOT) COM. Please replace > (at) by @ and (dot) by . Since we don't yet have a protocol for transmitting a punch to the face over TCP/IP, is it be wrong of me to wish that some whit

Re: Spam user

2017-04-03 Thread Cholo Lennon
On 01/04/17 16:15, Mario R. Osorio wrote: I'm not in the business of starting an argument about best/worse newsreader, Ammammata, but could you please recommend a few? Mozilla Thunderbird works very well. Spam is close to nothing using this free nntp server: news.aioe.org Re

Re: Spam user

2017-04-03 Thread Ammammata
Il giorno Sat 01 Apr 2017 09:15:41p, *Mario R. Osorio* ha inviato su comp.lang.python il messaggio news:d0e9d036-2924-4c2c-99b1-0d8cb02b9...@googlegroups.com. Vediamo cosa ha scritto: > I'm not in the business of starting an argument about best/worse > newsreader, Ammammata, but could you please

Re: Spam user

2017-04-01 Thread Mario R. Osorio
I'm not in the business of starting an argument about best/worse newsreader, Ammammata, but could you please recommend a few? TIA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Spam user

2017-03-31 Thread Ammammata
Il giorno Fri 31 Mar 2017 10:27:54a, *Ricardo A Baila* ha inviato su comp.lang.python il messaggio news:058a9744-44bf-4e6b-ae1d-28e1e348e...@googlegroups.com. Vediamo cosa ha scritto: > User-Agent: G2/1.0 > > Could someone remove wucbad...@gmx.com from the group? > you better switch to a decen

Re: Spam user

2017-03-31 Thread Terry Reedy
the Google Group admins, who allow much spam filtered out by python.org. And/or switch to reading the python.org list or the news.gmane.org newsgroup mirror. Are you sure you are not receiving those as private messages? GG trash is more likely. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org

Re: Spam user

2017-03-31 Thread Lele Gaifax
Ricardo A Baila writes: > Could someone remove wucbad...@gmx.com from the group? Strange, I could not see such messages, neither in the newsgroup (gmane) nor on the ML archives. Are you sure you are not receiving those as private messages? ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò d

Re: Spam user

2017-03-31 Thread Ricardo A Baila
Le vendredi 31 mars 2017 10:28:08 UTC+2, Ricardo A Baila a écrit : > Hi all, > > Could someone remove wucbad...@gmx.com from the group? > > Thanks > Ricardo And johnnypopo...@gmx.com as well. Didn't go deep on the issue but could it be @gmx.com the issue? Or at least, as the message is always

Spam user

2017-03-31 Thread Ricardo A Baila
Hi all, Could someone remove wucbad...@gmx.com from the group? Thanks Ricardo -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: spam issue

2017-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 March 2017 01:00:41 Greg Couch wrote: > On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8:08:44 AM UTC-8, Andrew Zyman wrote: > > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one > > that

Re: spam issue

2017-03-06 Thread Greg Couch
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8:08:44 AM UTC-8, Andrew Zyman wrote: > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has > this issue. If you do use google groups, please "Report abuse&

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 2:28:04 PM UTC-5, bream...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 4:08:44 PM UTC, Andrew Zyman wrote: > > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the on

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread breamoreboy
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 4:08:44 PM UTC, Andrew Zyman wrote: > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has > this issue. The bulk having lots of block capitals and in Italian?

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Andrew Zyman wrote: >> Or the mailing list, depending on how you like to read things. The >> list has some additional filtering and moderation, which I appreciate. >> >> ChrisA > > > you mean on python.org ? Yeah. You can sign up here: https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 1:39:54 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Cholo Lennon wrote: > > Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this > > group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam mess

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Cholo Lennon
On 02/03/17 13:08, Andrew Zyman wrote: Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has this issue. Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this group is ba

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Cholo Lennon wrote: > Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this > group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam messages in its > interface. Try using a newsreader like Mozilla Thunderbird and point i

spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman
Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has this issue. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [SPAM] RE: Cleaning up conditionals

2016-12-31 Thread MRAB
On 2016-12-31 22:35, Deborah Swanson wrote: Peter Otten wrote: Deborah Swanson wrote: > Here I have a real mess, in my opinion: [corrected code:] > if len(l1[st]) == 0: > if len(l2[st]) > 0: > l1[st] = l2[st] > elif len(l2[st]) == 0: > i

Re: Italian libel spam

2016-10-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > I'd imagine just having a list of 100 Italian words should give you a > pretty accurate spam score. Extra points for all caps. > Thanks, but that's not how SpamBayes works. Have a look here if you're interested:

Italian libel spam

2016-10-02 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Skip Montanaro : > Yeah, we've been struggling with it over at mail.python.org. While > incoming mail has all sorts of spam fighting bells and whistles, > messages arriving from Usenet only has the SpamBayes filter. I'm sure > I have a few more of these messages held. I wil

Re: Abusive Italian Spam

2016-09-30 Thread Cem Karan
Honestly, I'm impressed by how little spam ever makes it onto the list. Considering the absolute flood of email the lists get, it's impressive work. Thank you for all the hard work you guys do for all the rest of us! Thanks, Cem Karan On Sep 29, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Tim Golden wro

Abusive Italian Spam

2016-09-29 Thread Tim Golden
You may have noticed one or two more of the abusive spam messages slip through onto the list. We do have traps for these but, as with most such things, they need tuning. (We've discarded many more than you've seen). As ever, kudos to Mark Sapiro of the Mailman team for tweaking our cust

Re: [spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/29/2016 4:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2016, at 14:14, Terry Reedy wrote: Spam missed by the normally excellent spam filter. Ignore it. Blasted directly to this, and several other python related lists. The source address is NOT in the email headers, and I'm sure th

Re: [spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 May 2016 14:23:27 Random832 wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2016, at 14:14, Terry Reedy wrote: > > Spam missed by the normally excellent spam filter. Ignore it. > > I didn't actually see the original message. Maybe it was sent directly > to you (and perhaps other us

Re: [spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread John Ladasky
On Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 11:55:04 AM UTC-7, Peter Pearson wrote: > > No, it reached me, too, through NNTP. I also saw it, through the Google Groups gateway. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread Peter Pearson
On Sun, 29 May 2016 14:23:27 -0400, Random832 wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2016, at 14:14, Terry Reedy wrote: >> Spam missed by the normally excellent spam filter. Ignore it. > > I didn't actually see the original message. Maybe it was sent directly > to you (and perhaps

Re: [spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread Random832
On Sun, May 29, 2016, at 14:14, Terry Reedy wrote: > Spam missed by the normally excellent spam filter. Ignore it. I didn't actually see the original message. Maybe it was sent directly to you (and perhaps other users, but not me) with a forged header implying it came from the list? -

[spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread Terry Reedy
Spam missed by the normally excellent spam filter. Ignore it. On 5/29/2016 6:39 AM, Python-list wrote: Look what I've just found on the web, that really cool, yeah, more info here [likely toxic url snipped] My Best, Python-list -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/ma

{Spam?} Re: need help with selenium

2015-09-15 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
After clicking on submit button, a message is displayed on the same page whether login was successful or not. However after clicking on submit button, I lose control over the web page. I can't use any selenium functions now like 'driver.find_element_by_name()'. You need to wait until the submi

Re: spam (wasRe: extract from json)

2014-03-08 Thread Chris Angelico
> > This particular PITA of a spammer is one of the very few that I see on > Thunderbird via gmane. I believe that Terry Reedy amongst others does a > good job of keeping us relatively spam free. Thanks all. Normally I ignore him (and yes, I see those posts too, in Gmail). Stand-alone p

spam (wasRe: extract from json)

2014-03-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
ntent-free posts like this, but as you already have the answer you need, there's not a lot for me to add :) ChrisA This particular PITA of a spammer is one of the very few that I see on Thunderbird via gmane. I believe that Terry Reedy amongst others does a good job of keeping us relat

Re: Spam trash sent to python-list from google-groups

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
now and again as does BV BV whatever. For any spam I go straight to gg and gmane and mark them as spam. Every little counts :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Spam trash sent to python-list from google-groups

2013-12-30 Thread Terry Reedy
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OT spam (was Re: THE POPULATION OF MUSLIMS)

2013-09-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/5/2013 3:58 PM, bv4bv4...@gmail.com wrote: Religious rant that passed the spam filter and moderation mechanism. I am a new moderator and have asked the others if we can block this address. Please do not add to the spam posts that do appear by commenting on them. We do the best be can with

Re: [SPAM] Re: Default Value

2013-06-24 Thread MRAB
On 24/06/2013 15:22, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-06-22, Ian Kelly wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:49:51 +0100, MRAB wrote: On 21/06/2013 21:44, Rick Johnson wrote: [...] Which in Python would be the "MutableArgumentWarning". *school-

Psychopath Jack Wesolowski takes another spam dump on the UseNet (was: Gary Sokolich - 3463)

2013-03-05 Thread Mamma Wesolowski
Psychopath Jack Wesolowski trolling and spamming the UseNet as Gary Sokolisch wrote in news:tv04oi1c11wu.1gv33jqjim98d$.d...@40tude.net: > 3463 > > W Gary Sokolich > 801 Kings Road > Newport Beach, CA 92663-5715 > (949) 650-5379 > Local PD > 949-644-3681 > > Residence: > 1029 S Point View St

Re: [SPAM] Fonts & Tinker

2013-01-28 Thread Łukasz Posadowski
Dnia 2013-01-25, pią o godzinie 20:41 -0800, Angel pisze: > but the real displayed fonts in the window are smaller (default size of 12, > maybe). > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks in advance, > A. > Did you tried this by simple: --- root = Tk() root.option_add('*

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:08:58 -0800, Robert Miles wrote: > It now takes two people reporting the same spam to get google groups to > do much about it. I just reported this one as well, though. Speaking of spam, googlegroups, and other annoyances, please don't CC python-list@python.

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-22 Thread Robert Miles
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 8:18:53 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 18/11/2012 19:31, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. > > I don't know the answer but I take the greatest pleasure in hurtling > onto

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 November 2012 21:18:16 Robert Miles did opine: > On Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:35:00 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: > > The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. > > > > Not all, but more that half, I believe. This one does. &g

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/11/2012 19:31, Terry Reedy wrote: The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. I don't know the answer but I take the greatest pleasure in hurtling onto the dread googlegroups and gmane to report spam. Thankfully it's easy as the amount I receive vi

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Robert Miles
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:35:00 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: > The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. > > Not all, but more that half, I believe. This one does. > > > > From: MoneyMaker > > ... > > Message-ID: &

Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Terry Reedy
The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. Not all, but more that half, I believe. This one does. From: MoneyMaker ... Message-ID: <2d2a0b98-c587-4459-9489-680b1ddc4...@googlegroups.com> -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: recruiter spam

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Withers
Please don't spam the list with job adverts, post to the job board instead: http://www.python.org/community/jobs/howto/ cheers, Chris On 03/05/2012 22:13, Preeti Bhattad wrote: Hi there, If you have USA work visa and if you reside in USA; -- Simplistix - Content Management,

70% [* SPAM *] Re: multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object

2011-12-05 Thread DPalao
Hi Lie, Thank you for the reply. El Lunes Diciembre 5 2011, Lie Ryan escribió: > On 11/30/2011 06:09 AM, DPalao wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to use multiprocessing to parallelize a code. There is a > > number of tasks (usually 12) that can be run independently. Each task > > produces a numpy a

70% [* SPAM *] Re: Re: multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object

2011-12-05 Thread DPalao
e explanation by "ryles" on > >his/her mail of 27th aug 2009, with title "Re: Q: multiprocessing.Queue > >size limitations or bug...". It is very clarifying. > >After having read that I arranged the program such that the main process > >did not need

Re: 70% [* SPAM *] multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object

2011-12-05 Thread Lie Ryan
On 11/30/2011 06:09 AM, DPalao wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use multiprocessing to parallelize a code. There is a number of tasks (usually 12) that can be run independently. Each task produces a numpy array, and at the end, those arrays must be combined. I implemented this using Queues (multiproce

Re: Spam in subject lines (Re: multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object)

2011-12-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:11:28 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:57 PM, wrote: >> Why do people add character  like    [* SPAM *]  to their  subject >> lines ??   Is it supposed to do something  ??   I figured since >> programmers hang out here, maybe

Spam in subject lines (Re: 70% [* SPAM *] Re: multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object)

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:57 PM, wrote: > Why do people add character  like    [* SPAM *]  to their  subject > lines ??   Is it supposed to do something  ??   I figured since > programmers hang out here, maybe one of you know this. People don't. It's something added by a spam

Re: 70% [* SPAM *] Re: multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object

2011-12-05 Thread boB
that I arranged the program such that the main process did >not need to know when the others have finished, so I changed the process join >call with a queue get call, until a None (one per process) is returned. > >Best, > >David Why do people add character like[* SPAM *]

70% [* SPAM *] Re: multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object

2011-12-05 Thread DPalao
El Martes Noviembre 29 2011, DPalao escribió: > Hello, > I'm trying to use multiprocessing to parallelize a code. There is a number > of tasks (usually 12) that can be run independently. Each task produces a > numpy array, and at the end, those arrays must be combined. > I implemented this using Qu

70% [* SPAM *] multiprocessing.Queue blocks when sending large object

2011-11-29 Thread DPalao
Hello, I'm trying to use multiprocessing to parallelize a code. There is a number of tasks (usually 12) that can be run independently. Each task produces a numpy array, and at the end, those arrays must be combined. I implemented this using Queues (multiprocessing.Queue): one for input and anoth

Re: List spam

2011-08-20 Thread George
I find python group is filled with spam mails, is there any way to filter these mails before sending it to the group. I can't see this situation with similar user group, such as the jsr. George. On 20/08/2011 07:07, "Ben Finney" wrote: > Javier writes: > You will

Re: Really, stop repeating spam! (Was: Hot Girls...)

2011-08-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > Wait, I get it.  The spammer, Matty and you are all on gmail.  You are > all the same person, aren't you? > Gmail is all one person now? That would explain why I keep seeing things I agree with. I had no idea there were so many of me arou

Really, stop repeating spam! (Was: Hot Girls...)

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:16:08 +0530 hackingKK wrote: > Well, they might be indented in the right places but i don't know if > loops, conditions, functions, if they all happen or not. > :) [Entire spam deleted AGAIN] Good grief! Haven't you seen all the followups to that pos

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
;t think adding a smilie to a stupid post suddenly turns it > into a joke. Nevertheless, the quality of the attempt is not really > the issue here. The would-be humorist did not need to quote the spam. Well, exactly. I don't think that anyone made any comment about the quality of the joke

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread David Robinow
attempt is not really the issue here. The would-be humorist did not need to quote the spam. Please, don't do it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:10:49 -0400 Rodrick Brown wrote: > It's not the end of the world calm down I thought it was quite funny for a > friday joke! The first message might have been funny (if you are twelve) but the rest were annoying and insulting. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy i

Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

2011-08-20 Thread Alec Taylor
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > > > On Friday, August 19 at 17:12 (-0400), Matty Sarro said: > >> >> If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so >> it >> stops having so much spam. You realize spa

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