Re: spam issue

2017-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 March 2017 01:00:41 Greg Couch wrote: > On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8:08:44 AM UTC-8, Andrew Zyman wrote: > > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one > > that has this issue. > > If you d

Re: spam issue

2017-03-06 Thread Greg Couch
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 8:08:44 AM UTC-8, Andrew Zyman wrote: > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has > this issue. If you do use google groups, please "Report abuse" for these messages.

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 2:28:04 PM UTC-5, bream...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 4:08:44 PM UTC, Andrew Zyman wrote: > > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that > > has this

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread breamoreboy
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 4:08:44 PM UTC, Andrew Zyman wrote: > Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? > I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has > this issue. The bulk having lots of block capitals and in Italian? Been happening fo

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Andrew Zyman wrote: >> Or the mailing list, depending on how you like to read things. The >> list has some additional filtering and moderation, which I appreciate. >> >> ChrisA > > > you mean on python.org ? Yeah. You can sign up here: https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 1:39:54 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Cholo Lennon wrote: > > Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this > > group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam messages in its > > interface. Try usin

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Cholo Lennon
On 02/03/17 13:08, Andrew Zyman wrote: Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has this issue. Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this group is based). I suppose G

Re: spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Cholo Lennon wrote: > Google groups act like a "web frontend" for nntp protocol (on which this > group is based). I suppose Google doesn't filter spam messages in its > interface. Try using a newsreader like Mozilla Thunderbird and point it to a > news server. In my

spam issue

2017-03-02 Thread Andrew Zyman
Why is this group have such an obscene number of spam posts ? I'm subscribed to a few other google groups and this is the only one that has this issue. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list