In article ,
Emile van Sebille wrote:
>On 2/24/2010 1:52 PM Arnaud Delobelle said...
>> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>>
>>> That seems to miss the point to some extent. If I post my recipe for
>>> spinach lasagne here, is that spam?
>>
>> Are they really good? Sounds good, spinach lasag
On 2/24/2010 1:52 PM Arnaud Delobelle said...
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
That seems to miss the point to some extent. If I post my recipe for
spinach lasagne here, is that spam?
Are they really good? Sounds good, spinach lasagne, I don't know a
recipe for them. Maybe you could post
>
> If you like, but I tend to interpret "meta-" as idempotent. It's easier on
> my aspirin budget.
>
> --
> Robert Kern
And here I thought it was little blue pills for idempotentcy...
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> (That last response is aimed at a generic You, not Ben specifically.
> Stupid English language, why can't we have a word for generic you?)
I thought the word was "one".
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's
>> commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in that
>> it's unsolicited by the vast majority of its many recipients.
>
> N
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's
> > commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in
> > that it's unsolicited by the vast majority of its many recipients.
>
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:39:08 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Spam is better defined as unsolicited bulk messaging. Whether it's
> commercial in nature is irrelevant. The content is relevant only in that
> it's unsolicited by the vast majority of its many recipients.
Not quite.
I've read tens of thous
In article <874ol65ep8@benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney wrote:
>a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>> In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>>
>>>Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its distribution
>>>(to many people, e.g. via a forum like this on
On 2010-02-24 18:39 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Steve Holden writes:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those "send these to
ten of your friends" emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well
be).
That excludes thing
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
> >Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its distribution
> >(to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its content
> >(off-topic and unsolicited).
[…]
> Moreover, by
Steve Holden writes:
> Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
> e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those "send these to
> ten of your friends" emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well
> be).
That excludes things like the religious screeds, or any o
On 2010-02-24 17:01 PM, Aahz wrote:
In article,
Steve Holden wrote:
Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
e-mail. So anything that isn't commercial (like those "send these to ten
of your friends" emails) isn't spam (but it might just as well be).
That's roughl
Neil Hodgson wrote:
> Steve Holden:
>
>> Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
>> e-mail.
>
>Spam is more commonly defined as UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email) of
> which UCE is a large subset. Its just as much spam if its pushing a
> political party or charity even
Steve Holden:
> Spam is, at least from my point of view, UCE: unsolicited commercial
> e-mail.
Spam is more commonly defined as UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email) of
which UCE is a large subset. Its just as much spam if its pushing a
political party or charity even though there may be no commercial
In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney wrote:
>a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
>
>Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
>distribution (to many people, e.g. via a foru
In article ,
Steve Holden wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
>>>
>>> Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or p
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
>>a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>>
>>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
>>
>>Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
Aahz wrote:
> In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
>> Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
>> distribution (to many peopl
In article <87sk8r5v2f@benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney wrote:
>a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
>
>Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
>distribution (to many people, e.g. via a foru
On 2010-02-23 22:09 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-02-24, Robert Kern wrote:
comp.lang.python.spam_prevention_discussion
Which doesn't exist and never will. Sorry, but
meta-discussions about the group are typically on-topic for
all groups with some few exceptions (e.g. non-discussion,
bin
On 2010-02-24, Robert Kern wrote:
>> comp.lang.python.spam_prevention_discussion
>
> Which doesn't exist and never will. Sorry, but
> meta-discussions about the group are typically on-topic for
> all groups with some few exceptions (e.g. non-discussion,
> binary-only groups with associated .d gr
On 2010-02-23 20:22 , Lie Ryan wrote:
On 02/24/10 12:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
ten years a
On 02/24/10 12:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>
>>> Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
>>> to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
>>> ten years ago was because of the dimi
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>> Hmm. I wonder if all the spam is coming from the NG side. I'll have
>> to look at that. One of the reasons that I stopped reading UseNet over
>> ten years ago was because of the diminishinig S/N ratio. I have always
>> felt that i
On 02/24/10 11:21, Aahz wrote:
> In article ,
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
>> Joan Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
>>
>> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
>> increased in the
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
> Joan Miller is a regular poster; this is off-topic, but it's not spam.
Non sequitur. Spam is spam, not by who authors or posts it, but by its
distribution (to many people, e.g. via a forum like this one) and its
content (off-topic and unsolicited).
The messa
In article ,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
>Joan Miller wrote:
>>
>> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
>
>Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
>increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking a
In article <20100223182923.4d259d12.da...@druid.net>,
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" wrote:
> And just to bring this back on topic, I did do a test and found that
> splitting my mailbox between Python mailing list messages and Python
> newsgroup messages did not indicate that that was a good barometer of
> s
this image is appropriate:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pS7sKjlzwFg/SwhG1S901pI/Eiw/XSm93RIY2WE/s400/kelso-burn.jpg
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <
fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
> >> >> increase
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:06:09 +0100
Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> And this has to do with python programming in what way?
Are you new? Meta discussions about lists are generally considered
on-topic for the list.
> You, sir, are incredibly funny :)
Yes, I am. That however is NOT on topic. :-)
An
>> >> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
>> >> increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking all gmail
>> >> posts to this list?
>> >
>> > I did that a long time ago for all of the Usenet groups I read
>> > and all but one of the mailing lists I read.
>>
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:31:12 + (UTC)
Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
> >> increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking all gmail
> >> posts to this list?
> >
> > I did that a long time ago for all of the Usenet groups I
On 2010-02-23, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-02-23, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
>> Joan Miller wrote:
>>> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
>>
>> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
>> increased in th
On 2010-02-23, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
> Joan Miller wrote:
>> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
>
> Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
> increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blockin
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:54:25 -0800 (PST)
Joan Miller wrote:
> *Sorry by this message off topic, but this is too important*
Is it just me or has the spew from gmail on this list radically
increased in the last week? Anyone else considering blocking all gmail
posts to this list?
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D'Arcy J.M. C
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