On Sep 14, 4:58 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > memilanuk wrote: > > On 09/14/2011 05:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and > >> even stuff like Ranting Rick posts can be of some amusement when it's > >> a slow day... > > > I subscribe to the list via Gmane, and if 'most of the spam' gets > > filtered out, I'd hate to see how much gets submitted as I still see 2-5 > > minimum blatant spam per day on here. > > 2-5 spam posts is nothing. (Well, I know any spam is too much spam, but > still.) Since nearly all of it is obvious, it's easy to filter out of your > mail client, news client, or if all else fails, your attention. The hard > ones to ignore are the ones that look like they might be legitimate, but > fortunately most spammers are too lazy or stupid to bother with even the > most feeble disguise. > > Either way, I don't consider half a dozen spam posts a day to be anything > more than a minor distraction. > > Commercial spam is annoying, but otherwise harmless because it is so easy to > filter. What's really the problem is crackpots, trollers and griefers, > because there is a terrible temptation to engage them in debate: "someone > is wrong on the Internet!". If you want to see a news group gone bad, go to > something like sci.math. You can't move for the cranks "disproving" > Cantor's Diagonal Theorem and Special Relativity and proving that 10**603 > is the One True Actual Infinity (I'm not making that last one up!). > > -- > Steven
And, all this time, I'd thought it was ((10**603) - 1) that was the highest. Oh, well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
