On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 17:28:05 -0500, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 11/5/2017 4:14 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 05Nov2017 13:09, Στέφανος Σωφρονίου <stefanossofroniou...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Folks, >>> More and more nonsense are coming in and I find it really difficult to >>> follow any new post that may come and I have to either search for >>> specific content or scroll down until I hit it by accident. >>> >>> Can we do something about it? >>> It's getting really frustrating :/ >> >> It seems from the headers on your message that you're actually using the >> comp.lang.python newsgroup and not the mailing list. The newsgroup is >> completed unmoderated. The mailing list is far less noisy. >> >> Go here: >> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> and subscribe, and see if things seem better than the newsgroup. > Or point your newsreader to news.gmane.org group > gmane.comp.python.general, which mirrors python-list. [snip]
Or use a newsgroup reader that can be easily taught to ignore certain subjects or posters. Or buy your newsgroup service from a provider that does some filtering. I use slrn to read news from news.individual.net, and see only a handful of spam posts on a typical day. -- To email me, substitute nowhere->runbox, invalid->com. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
