On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: > On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: >> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if >> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up >> this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? > > The problem is, this forum has lots of access points. Its not entirely a > mailing list. Its also a usenet newsgroup (utterly uncontrollable). Its > got multiple bidirectional mirrors. The python-list version of the group > is fortunately largely free from spam as its spam filters are pretty > solid, but other access points vary. > > I *think* from looking at his headers, he's posting via Google Groups. > FWIW, since its a Gmail user, I've reported him for abuse to both the > Gmail and Google Groups teams. If they decide to do anything, who knows. > I've also reported all his mails as Spam, so hopefully they'll just get > junked. Maybe the python-list spam filters can be tweaked, who knows. > > He'll probably always show up on the usenet/Google Groups part of things > though. Cuz Google's notoriously bad at controlling spam on Groups(*) > > -- > > Stephen Hansen > ... Also: Ixokai > ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io > ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/ > > P.S. This is something which confuses me greatly. Considering how > *great* the spam filters are on Gmail-- I literally get virtually > nothing in my inbox-- how in world are Google Groups so full of junk? > They doesn't Google run the groups messages through similar filters? Sigh.
I have never understood this. On the positive side, if you use gmail you can set up a filter to auto-junk his rants. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
