Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 18/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Is this list not moderated? I'm really not interested in Britney >>> Spears boobs. All the spam on this list is from the same place, it >>> should be very easy to filter. >>> >> Is it a list, is it a newsgroup? No, it's c.l.py! >> >> In fact you could be reading this in a number of different forms, and >> there are equally many ways to inject content into the stream. It's >> surprisingly difficult to filter everything out, though the list >> managers at python.org seem to do a remarkably effective job. > > I don't believe that a python list manager would have a hard time > coming up with a regex that /dev/nulled any post with the words > "britney", "spears", "boobs", "tits", or the like. > >> I'm not particularly interested in that subject matter either, but >> believe me there could be a lot more of that kind of thing than actually >> makes it through! > > And if it doesn''t start getting filtered now, the spammers will see > this list as an easy target and will attack it. Believe me. >
I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Most of what can be done *is* being done, which is why you see the relatively low spam volumes you do. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden ------------------ Asciimercial --------------------- Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag your way to fame!! holdenweb.blogspot.com squidoo.com/pythonology tagged items: del.icio.us/steve.holden/python All these services currently offer free registration! -------------- Thank You for Reading ---------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
