Re: spams

seems good :) On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:47:12 +0530 > Shashwat Anand wrote: > > Lately this list have been spammed a lot. Any workarounds by moderators? > > Not as long as it is gatewayed to Usenet. You can kill most of the > spam by bloc

Re: spams

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:47:12 +0530 Shashwat Anand wrote: > Lately this list have been spammed a lot. Any workarounds by moderators? Not as long as it is gatewayed to Usenet. You can kill most of the spam by blocking anything from gmail.com with a Newsgroups line. Unfortunately you will also bloc

spams

Lately this list have been spammed a lot. Any workarounds by moderators? ~l0nwlf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

> CMIIW correct me if I'm wrong.  Google Groups is a Usenet/c-l-py > gateway.  Other gateways aren't contributing to spam.  What are they > doing that G-Groups is not? Actually Google Groups appears to be just displaying the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.python. The spam filtering which is the topic

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 27, 7:28 am, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/27 Aaron Castironpi Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> I think in June and July they were selling watches a lot which I > >> haven't noticed recently. > > > Gucci 104 G-Bandeau Watches - Gucci Watches Discount Rolex Oyster > > Per

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

2008/9/27 Aaron Castironpi Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I think in June and July they were selling watches a lot which I >> haven't noticed recently. > > Gucci 104 G-Bandeau Watches - Gucci Watches Discount Rolex Oyster > Perpetual Lady Datejust Pearlmaster 18kt Yellow Gold Diamond Ladies > Watch

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 26, 1:04 pm, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 26, 11:43 am, "Tim Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/9/26 Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I don't have any

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

2008/9/26 nntpman68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's tough to find good rules, but the incoming spams that I see currently > on comp.lang.python have certain criteas. > > > > - most email addresses from gmail. > - all never posted before and then they have multi

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On 2008-09-26, nntpman68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I'm annoyed by any spam. > It's tough to find good rules, but the incoming spams that I see > currently on comp.lang.python have certain criteas. > > - most email addresses from gmail. ...snip rest of good

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 26, 9:33 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sep 26, 9:30 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I read the group via NNTP, and I find that blocking all articles > > > posted from google.groups gets rid of all of the spam.

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On 2008-09-27, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 26, 9:30 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2008-09-26, nntpman68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hm, >> >> > I guess you just filter mailing lists and can do nothing about the >> > newsgroup if I'm fetching via t

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sep 26, 9:30 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read the group via NNTP, and I find that blocking all articles > > posted from google.groups gets rid of all of the spam. > > ... along with a far from trivial (I guess) percentage of no

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

>> > I read the group via NNTP, and I find that blocking all articles >> > posted from google.groups gets rid of all of the spam. >> >> ... along with a far from trivial (I guess) percentage of non-spam, >> such as this post. Aaron> Every method has false positives, Georg

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 26, 9:09 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 26, 9:30 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2008-09-26, nntpman68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hm, > > > > I guess you just filter mailing lists and can do nothing about the > > > newsgroup if I'm fetchin

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 26, 9:30 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-09-26, nntpman68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hm, > > > I guess you just filter mailing lists and can do nothing about the > > newsgroup if I'm fetching via the nntp server of my ISP itself, right? > > I read the group via

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On 2008-09-26, nntpman68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm, > > > I guess you just filter mailing lists and can do nothing about the > newsgroup if I'm fetching via the nntp server of my ISP itself, right? I read the group via NNTP, and I find that blocking all articles posted from google.groups ge

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

Aaron> Is there such a thing as an open-source spam filter? That way Aaron> any time anyone had spare time and got annoyed, they could dump a Aaron> short snippet of code into the grinder. Yes: though I think your model of how it works probably needs a bit

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 26, 6:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I took over spam filter management for the python.org mailing lists a couple > months ago and made a few changes to the way the spam filter is trained. > Things seem to be at a reasonable level as far as I can tell (I see a few > spams

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

than 'major nuisance'. Improvements are appreciated here. It's tough to find good rules, but the incoming spams that I see currently on comp.lang.python have certain criteas. - most email addresses from gmail. - all never posted before and then they have multiple posts within a few min

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

pythonable (or perlable) news reader running under windows / cygwin or any way (under WIN XP) to use scripts to filter newsgroups for Thunderbird? - I'm annoyed by any spam. It's tough to find good rules, but the incoming spams that I see currently on comp.lang.python have certain crite

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Sep 26, 11:43 am, "Tim Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/26 Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I don't have any objective numbers, but subjectively it seems to me that > > the number of spams is significantly higher, but not so

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

2008/9/26 Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't have any objective numbers, but subjectively it seems to me that > the number of spams is significantly higher, but not so high as to be a > major nuisance. I consider *any* spam to be a major nuisance, but I do

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

spam filter is > > trained. Things seem to be at a reasonable level as far as I can tell (I > > see a few spams leak through each day), though I wasn't actively reading > > comp.lang.python/[EMAIL PROTECTED] before I took over the task, so > > I have nothing to compare with.

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:31:40 -0500, skip wrote: > I took over spam filter management for the python.org mailing lists a > couple months ago and made a few changes to the way the spam filter is > trained. Things seem to be at a reasonable level as far as I can tell (I > see a fe

Re: Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I took over spam filter management for the python.org mailing lists a couple > months ago and made a few changes to the way the spam filter is trained. > Things seem to be at a reasonable level as far as I can tell (I see a few > spams leak through each da

Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

I took over spam filter management for the python.org mailing lists a couple months ago and made a few changes to the way the spam filter is trained. Things seem to be at a reasonable level as far as I can tell (I see a few spams leak through each day), though I wasn't actively re