Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-08 Thread skip
Robert> I don't think a SpamBayes approach will work for this particular Robert> guy. It's not like completely fake metadata was uploaded with Robert> links to spam sites. There actually is Python code for some of Robert> them. Maybe even some that is marginally useful. But only

Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-08 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-08 14:32, Jesse Noller wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Robert Kern wrote: On 2009-06-08 07:44, Skip Montanaro wrote: On Jun 5, 1:39 pm, joepwrote: Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? Can you provide some examples? It's possible that we can apply SpamBayes to PyPI

Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-08 Thread Jesse Noller
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2009-06-08 07:44, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 1:39 pm, joep  wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? >> >> Can you provide some examples?  It's possible that we can apply >> SpamBayes >> to PyPI submissions in much t

Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-08 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-06-08 07:44, Skip Montanaro wrote: On Jun 5, 1:39 pm, joep wrote: Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? Can you provide some examples? It's possible that we can apply SpamBayes to PyPI submissions in much the same way that we apply it in other non- mail areas. I suspect he migh

Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-08 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Jun 5, 1:39 pm, joep wrote: > Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? Can you provide some examples? It's possible that we can apply SpamBayes to PyPI submissions in much the same way that we apply it in other non- mail areas. Thx, Skip Montanaro -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-07 Thread Scott David Daniels
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message , joep wrote: Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? Yes, but it doesn't work. And if you ever do discover something that _does_ work: (1) You'll have discovered perpetual motion. (2) You'll probably get terribly rich from selling it. (3) You'll

Re: spammers on pypi

2009-06-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , joep wrote: > Is there a way to ban spammers from pypi? Yes, but it doesn't work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list