"Michael L Torrie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:08 +0200, bryan rasmussen wrote: | > Well two things I would suppose: | > | > 1. relative popularity and volume of the group leads spammers to put | > more resources towards spamming the group. | > | > 2. I seem to remember that python-list is also a usenet group? | > non-moderated, meaning it is tough to ban people? | > | > Actually, it would be nice to know if anybody has any good filters | > worked up that will work in Gmail for reading python-list. | | It appears that people using nntp to read this list aren't seeing the | spam because the moderators expire the messages as they find them. | However, by then the messages have already hit the mailman gateway. | Thus you may want to consider reading c.l.p via nntp when at work. | | Lately all the spams contain a url to a certain site, so you can | probably procmail filter based on that. The spam does not appear to be | random-bot generated, but targeted spam by a single person or entity. | Which makes it easier to filter out.
I am getting lots of it reading via gmane. It is not clear to me from the headers for some whether the spam is being injected via gmane or is being passed thru the mailing lists, which is supposed to block such (I thought). Anyone clear for this one? Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general Subject: ^? Ron Jeremeys Dick Gets Longer! Date: 21 May 2007 22:17:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 6 Approved: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179811282 28713 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2007 05:21:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 05:21:22 +0000 (UTC) To: python-list@python.org Original-X-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 22 07:21:20 2007 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original-Received: from smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.28]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqMoC-00046j-8v for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 22 May 2007 07:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from bag.python.org (bag.python.org [194.109.207.14]) by smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4M5LK8b075024 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 22 May 2007 07:21:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Original-Received: from bag.python.org (bag [127.0.0.1]) by bag.python.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F051E4003 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 22 May 2007 07:21:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Path: news.xs4all.nl!newsspool.news.xs4all.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!xs4all!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!b40g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.python, misc.writing, alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains, alt.guitar.amps, comp.unix.solaris Original-Lines: 3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.183.79.3 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1179811048 22970 127.0.0.1 (22 May 2007 05:17:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 05:17:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20061220 Mandriva/1.5.0.10-2mdv2007.0 (2007.0) Firefox/1.5.0.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Injection-Info: b40g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.183.79.3; posting-account=0f6UMg0AAAC5bxvnyv-Tuh1EvQXxN9Ru Original-Xref: news.xs4all.nl comp.lang.python:496115 misc.writing:997260 alt.consumers.uk-discounts.and.bargains:213090 alt.guitar.amps:815089 comp.unix.solaris:552028 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list> List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Original-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.python.general:523407 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/523407> I have sent notices to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get no response and spam continues from same account. I am wondering if google thinks it is too big to be punished for being a spam source. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
