> There seems to be lot of spam coming in this newsgroup. > Is it possible to have some mechanism similar to say - slashdot - > wherein mails can be moderated by any of the usual users? > This is required only for people who is posting for the first time > (or people who has been rated spam before). Second post onwards, no > moderation required. > Just wondering.
C.P.L is an unmoderated newsgroup: so there's no content controls on posts. I don't think that's possible to change. But I haven't gotten directly near a newsgroup-as-a-newsgroup in eons, so I may be wrong. If you subscribe to C.P.L as a mailing list instead of a newsgroup, I believe most of the spam gets filtered out at the mailing list<->news group gateway by the Python.org spam filters... At least no spam in my Gmail spam folder appears to be flagged from this group(at a very brief glance) so they appear to be doing quite well. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list is the list subscription page. (C.P.L and python-list are essentially the same thing: things posted to the list get forwarded to the newsgroup, and vice-versa) --S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
