Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 19/05/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> The Python list managers know what they are doing, and they *do* keep a >> huge amount of spam off the list. The occasional piece gets through, but >> this is Usenet. It will, from time to time. >> > > Again, I appreciate the efforts made to reduce spam on the list of > course. It's obvious that much effort is being put into it. The > procmail filters that I'm referring to would be right before the mail > gets handed to sendmail. I read this list as a mailing list, and I'm > unfamiliar with the different interfaces. But it all goes through a > central point from which is it diseminated. Right before that point is > where I'd imagine the filters are. They do exist, no? > It doesn't all go through a central point - users like me who use a news server to access the list submit articles through a local news server using NNTP. While there *is* a single point of access for articles pulled from python.org's news server and gatewayed out as email (and for which the filters you mention probably ought to help), articles I see have never been processed by this interface.
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