Re: The spam to content ratio of this group

2009-04-01 Thread r
On Apr 1, 9:57 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-04-01, Eric wrote: > 3) Simply ignoring all posts made from Google Groups works >    quite well. Yea, there's no spam in Usenet land APRIL FOOLS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The spam to content ratio of this group

2009-04-01 Thread Tim Golden
s...@pobox.com wrote: Eric> is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of Eric> this noise? Steven> /me opens mouth to make sarcastic comment Steven> /me shuts mouth again Steven> That's like saying "There's a lot of oil slicks washing up onto Steven>

Re: The spam to content ratio of this group

2009-04-01 Thread skip
Eric> is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of Eric> this noise? Steven> /me opens mouth to make sarcastic comment Steven> /me shuts mouth again Steven> That's like saying "There's a lot of oil slicks washing up onto Steven> the beach. Why don't w

Re: The spam to content ratio of this group

2009-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-04-01, Eric wrote: > is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of this > noise? 1) Captcha's don't work. 2) The NNTP protocol doesn't support Captcha's 3) Simply ignoring all posts made from Google Groups works quite well. -- Grant Edwards gr

Re: The spam to content ratio of this group

2009-04-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:43:48 -0700, Eric wrote: > is getting very high. Why aren't captcha's used to prevent all of this > noise? /me opens mouth to make sarcastic comment /me shuts mouth again That's like saying "There's a lot of oil slicks washing up onto the beach. Why don't we put more tra