On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:50:45 -0700, Stephen Hansen 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(*)
He's posting from sbcglobal.net, I reported him to ab...@sbcglobal.net for spamming an unrelated group with antisemitic spam. -- I don't think, therefore I am not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
