In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-04-16, Mark Shroyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 16, 12:01?pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > What can we do about all the spam that comp.lang.python is getting? > >> > Things are getting pretty bad. > >> > >> Buy Google and make them fix it. > > > > I've had pretty good luck with MT-NewsWatcher, a freeware Mac > > newsreader that performs Bayesian spam filtering. > > Thunderbird's Usenet reader also offers Bayesian filtering, > > which presumably works just as well for classifying Usenet > > spam as it does at handling email spam. > > > > So download a "real" NNTP client for whatever platform you're > > on and give its spam filter a shot; clearly Google is not > > interested in fighting spam itself. > > Plonking anything posted via google.groups is the simplest > answer. Yes, but it's hard to give him that advice with a straight face until I've convinced him to stop using Google Groups to begin with ;) -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/contact/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
