On 2013-11-29, Arif Khokar <akhokar1...@wvu.edu> wrote: > On 11/28/2013 1:50 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 11/28/2013 11:37 AM, rusi wrote: > >>> 2. All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there >>> are >>> spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc. >> >> What they have in common is usenet. Ditching usenet would solve both >> problems. > > The problem could also be solved through client side filtering (i. e., > killfiles). I usually killfile posters who crosspost to unrelated > groups (which filters 99% of the spam that comes through). I'm sure > that the usenet/email gateway could be configured to filter such posts > on the server side so those who read this list via email won't have > those problems. > > The problem with just using email is that it's a bit more difficult to > browse archived posts to this group. After I subscribed to this group > (comp.lang.python) using my news client, I could immediately browse > posts made as far back as April.
You're assuming that Usenet === NNTP. You can point your news client at gmane.org's NNTP server and get all the benefits of "news" for regular mailing lists. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
