On Feb 12, 10:23 am, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Allow me to take this opportunity to thank the folks that *are* > doing/managing this spam-filtering of the mailing list side of > things -- the drastic drop in spam (from 6+ months back) is much > appreciated! > > Though I guess this thread does beg the question: is there a way > to read the filtered mailing list with a newsreader (via NNTP) > instead of getting it delivered via email or subjecting oneself > to the spamminess of c.l.p? I like some of the "kill-thread" > types of options I've got on the NNTP side of readers that aren't > as readily available to me on the email side of things > (Thunderbird allows for thread-kills in News, but not in email). > > -tkc
Enhancement request for google: hide messages by a certain author it would be individually set, but can get rid of a lot of junk at once. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list