On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically > >> increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking all gmail > >> posts to this list? > > > > I did that a long time ago for all of the Usenet groups I read > > and all but one of the mailing lists I read. > > Wait, I misread the posting. I block everything from > google.groups, not everything from gmail.
Yes, I did that a long time ago as well. But now there seems to be more and more actual spam coming from gmail.com itself. It may just be a minor blip on the spam graph but I'm keeping my eye on it. Most mailing lists that I am on are pretty good at filtering spam before it gets to the list. The only spam I ever see on my NetBSD lists are the ones that I moderate and I block them before anyone else sees them. A little more pain for me in return for a lot less pain for everyone else. I guess that's not possible on a list that is gatewayed to UseNet like this one is. Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over ten years ago was because of the diminishinig S/N ratio. I have always felt that it was a mistake to gateway this group. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
