Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-25 Thread BJ Swope
> > 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... Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate. -- brazzy Auburn fans are like slinkys

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-24 Thread Robert Kern
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Kern
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Lie Ryan
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Lie Ryan
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Aahz
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Ned Deily
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Chris Colbert
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
>> >> 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. >>

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Spam from gmail (Was: fascism)

2010-02-23 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
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? -- D'Arcy J.M. C