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From: Alan Harris-Reid on 16 Jun 2010 13:56 Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? Regards, Alan
From: Stephen Hansen on 16 Jun 2010 14:50 On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: > Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if > we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up > this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? The problem is, this forum has lots of access points. Its not entirely a mailing list. Its also a usenet newsgroup (utterly uncontrollable). Its got multiple bidirectional mirrors. The python-list version of the group is fortunately largely free from spam as its spam filters are pretty solid, but other access points vary. I *think* from looking at his headers, he's posting via Google Groups. FWIW, since its a Gmail user, I've reported him for abuse to both the Gmail and Google Groups teams. If they decide to do anything, who knows. I've also reported all his mails as Spam, so hopefully they'll just get junked. Maybe the python-list spam filters can be tweaked, who knows. He'll probably always show up on the usenet/Google Groups part of things though. Cuz Google's notoriously bad at controlling spam on Groups(*) -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ P.S. This is something which confuses me greatly. Considering how *great* the spam filters are on Gmail-- I literally get virtually nothing in my inbox-- how in world are Google Groups so full of junk? They doesn't Google run the groups messages through similar filters? Sigh.
From: Mark Lawrence on 16 Jun 2010 15:21 On 16/06/2010 18:56, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: > Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if > we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up > this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? > > Regards, > Alan Alan, From an earlier thread by Stephen Hansen, timed at 16/06/2010 07:17 BST. "No, we won't. Reported as abuse. This forum is for discussion of Python. Python is apolitical, areligious, asociological, and only philosophical when you speak the High Holy Truth of the Zen as Delivered Unto Us by He Who Is The Timbot." All, I actually don't know how to report such things because of the combination of c.l.py, gmane.comp.python.general and http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list, possibly others?. Could somebody please show the correct direction? Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence
From: geremy condra on 16 Jun 2010 15:33 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Stephen Hansen <me+list/python(a)ixokai.io> wrote: > On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: >> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if >> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up >> this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? > > The problem is, this forum has lots of access points. Its not entirely a > mailing list. Its also a usenet newsgroup (utterly uncontrollable). Its > got multiple bidirectional mirrors. The python-list version of the group > is fortunately largely free from spam as its spam filters are pretty > solid, but other access points vary. > > I *think* from looking at his headers, he's posting via Google Groups. > FWIW, since its a Gmail user, I've reported him for abuse to both the > Gmail and Google Groups teams. If they decide to do anything, who knows. > I've also reported all his mails as Spam, so hopefully they'll just get > junked. Maybe the python-list spam filters can be tweaked, who knows. > > He'll probably always show up on the usenet/Google Groups part of things > though. Cuz Google's notoriously bad at controlling spam on Groups(*) > > -- > > Stephen Hansen > ... Also: Ixokai > ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io > ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ > > P.S. This is something which confuses me greatly. Considering how > *great* the spam filters are on Gmail-- I literally get virtually > nothing in my inbox-- how in world are Google Groups so full of junk? > They doesn't Google run the groups messages through similar filters? Sigh.. I have never understood this. On the positive side, if you use gmail you can set up a filter to auto-junk his rants. Geremy Condra
From: Stephen Hansen on 16 Jun 2010 16:02
On 6/16/10 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I actually don't know how to report such things because of the > combination of c.l.py, gmane.comp.python.general and > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list, possibly others?. > Could somebody please show the correct direction? It depends on its source. If the email is posted on usenet, really the only hope you have is abuse@<their domain> and prayer. I.e. abuse(a)theirisp.com Gmail has its own report form: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse If its over Google Groups, you can go find the offending message in Google Groups, and click 'more options', 'Report this Message' -- I have little hope this is very effective, considering the state of Groups. If its posted to the mailing list itself, the list admins can take action. I dunno how often they do (then again, this sort of stuff never originates from the mailing list) -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ |