[Pythonmac-SIG] all these viruses... offer to help moderate

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Sun Mar 14 22:12:13 EST 2004


    Kevin> I feel there is great irony in the fact that the only Python
    Kevin> mailing list I'm on that gets extreme amounts of SPAM viruses
    Kevin> targeted at Windows users is pythonmac-sig. ;-) If Barry needs a
    Kevin> better testing ground for spambayes hooks into mailman, I think
    Kevin> this mailing list is it.

    Kevin> So Jack, were you just drowning under the posting load and opened
    Kevin> up the list to non-members or what? I could be convinced to act
    Kevin> as a second admin if you need help moderating; that might be good
    Kevin> anyway since we're in different timezones... If the messages are
    Kevin> coming from legit subscribers then I suggest we start
    Kevin> unsubscribing those folks, they can resubscribe after they clean
    Kevin> up their systems.

I'm helping moderate the list.  I have a discard script I run on the pending
items page after scanning it for useful stuff.  I don't know what the status
of spambayes/spamassassin/spamwhatever filters is. 

Skip



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