From: be.krul on
On Jul 17, 10:24 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...(a)benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "be.krul" <be.k...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > why is this group being spammed?
>
> What kind of answer are you looking for? Are you asking about the
> motives of spammers, or the technical explanation for how the spam
> arrives, or something else?
>
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> Ben Finney

Why not moderate this group?
From: be.krul on
On Jul 17, 10:01 pm, "be.krul" <be.k...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> why is this group being spammed?

What I was asking is why not moderate the group. this is the only
Python group I could find..
But maybe owner of this group do no care in that case we *all* get
spammed!
From: Thomas Jollans on
On 07/24/2010 04:20 PM, be.krul wrote:
> On Jul 17, 10:09 pm, Chris Rebert <c...(a)rebertia.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:01 PM, be.krul <be.k...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> why is this group being spammed?
>>
>> Because that's what happens in unmoderated USENET newsgroups.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>
> I thought this group can be moderated, but turns out this is USENET
> Group..

What did you think it was?
From: be.krul on
On Jul 24, 7:39 am, Thomas Jollans <tho...(a)jollans.com> wrote:
> On 07/24/2010 04:20 PM, be.krul wrote:
>
> > On Jul 17, 10:09 pm, Chris Rebert <c...(a)rebertia.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:01 PM, be.krul <be.k...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> why is this group being spammed?
>
> >> Because that's what happens in unmoderated USENET newsgroups.
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Chris
>
> > I thought this group can be moderated, but turns out this is USENET
> > Group..
>
> What did you think it was?

Because i joined from Goggle Groups and not the Usenet Client.
From: Mark Lawrence on
On 24/07/2010 18:01, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:32:30 -0700 (PDT), "be.krul"<be.krul(a)gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> But maybe owner of this group do no care in that case we *all* get
>> spammed!
>
> There is NO OWNER of comp.lang.python; and turning a comp.* group
> into moderated takes a fairly long time assuming you can find someone
> willing to be the moderators -- what would likely happen is that
> comp.lang.python.moderated would be created and then take a few months
> to be picked up by the servers, and a few more months for the real users
> to leave comp.lang.python to use it.
>
> Oh, and also the hassle of the mailing-list<>usenet gateway (does it
> pass traffic to both groups, drop the existing one, etc.). And readers
> on Google may still see spam if Google takes posts stuff before it
> passes through the moderation board.

For the benefit of those who might have missed it, I'll repeat that I'm
reading this from gmane.comp.python.general and see little or no spam.

Regards.

Mark Lawrence.