Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Thu, 24 May 2007 21:53:24 -0300, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > >> "Aahz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> | 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. >> >> This does not address the issue of spam passing thru python-list, which I >> believe is supposed to be somewhat moderated (by people who have rejected >> my help to catch spam) to gmane, where I read it. I presume this is the >> path for stuff injected via google. Or perhaps stuff flows the other >> way. I am not sure. Or perhaps it it injected independently in both or >> all >> three places. > > Or four or N places; anybody can post using any other nntp server that > carries this group (if the server allows him, of course). Mailing lists > are easier to control because there is a single entry point; news aren't > that way. > I *did* try to explain all this a week or two ago. Did I not make myself clear?
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