In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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.
Allow this creaky and cranky old-timer to correct what you're trying to write: First of all, if you're accessing python-list as comp.lang.python, you're accessing a newsgroup, *not* a mailing list. Secondly, c.l.py is an unmoderated group; there is no moderator and no control over who posts. However, netnews (Usenet) has a mechanism for cancelling articles, and cancelbots send out cancel messages for spam articles. (Expiring is a completely different mechanism from cancelling; you may be thinking of superceding -- yes, that's how the header is spelled, deal with it -- which uses the cancel mechanism to replace one article with a supposedly-better version.) These days, because of the cancelbot wars, many news servers do not honor cancels, so the extent to which you see spam in c.l.py depends partly on whether your server does honor cancels. Also, because of the nature of netnews distribution, you may still see spam even if your server does honor cancels because the cancel message takes too long to arrive. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles." --John Cleese anticipates Usenet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list