Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote: > This isn't a Google Group-group, though. There are no moderators, no > administrators. Its a Usenet group (at least as far as Google is > concerned) which Google offers in Google Groups form. Which goes back to my first point. When they fi

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/16/10 6:52 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > And for the record, Google Groups does have a spam filter that can be > enabled in the moderation settings. The possible spam messages get > sent to a moderation queue for a review. I imagine that for a group > this size, the amount of work involved in moder

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:36 PM, geremy condra wrote: > Granted, but I don't see that happening if all they're doing is > filtering spam out of groups. They already do it in your inbox > for pete's sake- if it is censorship, it doesn't strike any closer > to home than that, and people love them fo

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Deadly Dirk
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:50:45 -0700, Stephen Hansen wrote: > On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: >> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if >> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up >> this (normally) wonderful resource for Pyth

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:28 PM, alex23 wrote: > geremy condra wrote: >> I have a hard time believing that any major company in the world >> wants to be associated with this kind of crap. I'm ashamed even >> to have it in my inbox. > > I can just as easily imagine the furor that would spring up o

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread alex23
geremy condra wrote: > I have a hard time believing that any major company in the world > wants to be associated with this kind of crap. I'm ashamed even > to have it in my inbox. I can just as easily imagine the furor that would spring up over Google's "evil censorship" if they _did_ start yanki

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:04 PM, alex23 wrote: > Stephen Hansen wrote: >> P.S. This is something which confuses me greatly. Considering how >> *great* the spam filters are on Gmail-- I literally get virtually >> nothing in my inbox-- how in world are Google Groups so full of junk? > > The cynic i

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread alex23
Stephen Hansen wrote: > P.S. This is something which confuses me greatly. Considering how > *great* the spam filters are on Gmail-- I literally get virtually > nothing in my inbox-- how in world are Google Groups so full of junk? The cynic in me thinks it has a lot to do with how many of these Gr

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/06/2010 22:51, Joshua Kordani wrote: Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 16/06/2010 18:56, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Joshua Kordani
Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 16/06/2010 18:56, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up this (normally) wonder

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/16/10 1:42 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Thanks Stephen, > > But likely to be difficult as (presumably he) has already turned up this > evening as smallpox. I noticed. Reported too. Hopefully, Google'll like, ban his IP or something. Either way, I shall persistently continue to report! Even if

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/06/2010 21:02, Stephen Hansen wrote: On 6/16/10 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I actually don't know how to report such things because of the combination of c.l.py, gmane.comp.python.general and http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list, possibly others?. Could somebody please sh

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 16/06/2010 18:56, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: >> >> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'?  Will it eventually go away if >> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up >> this (normally) wonderful resource for Pyth

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/16/10 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I actually don't know how to report such things because of the > combination of c.l.py, gmane.comp.python.general and > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list, possibly others?. > Could somebody please show the correct direction? It depends

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Stephen Hansen wrote: > On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: >> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'?  Will it eventually go away if >> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up >> this (normally) wonderful resource for Python

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 16/06/2010 18:56, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? Regards, Alan Alan, From an earlier thread by St

Re: Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Stephen Hansen
On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote: > Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if > we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up > this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? The problem is, this forum has lots of access p

Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

2010-06-16 Thread Alan Harris-Reid
Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers? Regards, Alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list