On Apr 16, 1:43 pm, Severian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2008-04-16, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Apr 16, 9:19 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> This morning almost half of c.l.p was spam. In order to try > >>> to not tar both the benign google group users and the > >>> malignant ones with the same brush, I've been trying to kill > >>> usenet spam with subject patterns. But that's not a battle > >>> you can win, so I broke down and joined all the other people > >>> that just killfile everything posted via google.groups. > >> Not very bright, eh? > > >>> AFAICT, if you're a google groups user your posts are not being > >>> seen by many/most experienced (read "non-google-group") users. > >>> This is mainly the fault of google who has refused to do > >>> anything to stem the flood of span that's being sent via Google > >>> Groups. > >> Duh. > > > My. That was certainly a well-reasoned and well-written > > response. > > Well, it did come from an AOL user posting from Google groups <g>.
Hey, he wasn't supposed to see that! He's plonked Google Groups, hasn't he? Looks like you'll have to reconsider how well-reasoned AOL users are. Who use Google because AOL terminated their news service - because of Google. Smart move, eh? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
