On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:19:38 AM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> There seems to be a gateway loop of some sort going on. > >> I'm seeing multiple versions of the same posts in > >> comp.lang.python with different numbers of "nospam"s > >> prepended to the email address. > > > > This is the second thread about this. I was thinking it might be > > related to recent changes to the gate_news process on mail.python.org, > > but this fingerprint looks nothing like what gate_news does. > > > > Looking at a somewhat long-ish thread: > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.python/YoxLtkzlt_o/discussion > > > > I see a couple posts from Chris Angelico, only some of which have a > > "nospam" preface. It would seem that someone was trying to mark > > certain posters as "not spammy," (I'm sure Chris is flattered) and > > somehow posts with that private marking leaked out of the user's > > system starting in the past twelve hours or so. > > > > Newsreader configuration problem? > > More likely, someone was trying to obscure the email addresses, but > managed to tag my name instead. Definitely looks like some sort of > automation failure. The only question is, whose? If it's not from > gate_news, there's someone here on the list/ng that is (probably > accidentally) reposting everything. > > ChrisA
I suspect that it's a big own goal as even stuff from the RUE is getting through. -- Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
