On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Albert W. Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > > On Friday, August 19 at 17:12 (-0400), Matty Sarro said: > >> >> If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so >> it >> stops having so much spam. You realize spam comes in almost >> constantly, >> right? Enough that multiple tines over the past weeks there have been >> no >> less than 3 threads about it. > > For me, the original post ended in my spam box, which means my filter is > doing it's job, but when you re-post it, my filter did not regard it as > spam. I actually wish it had. Therefore you are an enabler. > > >> If php, red hat, and perl can manage it for their lists, why not >> python? Is >> that a statement about python programmers? >> > > The python list is (also) a Usenet newsgroup. Usenet is distributed and > therefore there is no central place to filter spam (each usenet host > would have to have its own filter and what one considers spam another > might consider ham)... anyway, that's neither here nor there. Having my > own filter usually works. > > I'm not here to dis you, just to try to help you understand the how/why > regarding the re-post and why your attitude about it might give the > impression of apathy toward your peer community. > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I found said joke rather funny :P -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
