Stefan Behnel wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg, 26.04.2010 11:36:
Stefan Behnel wrote:
does this list actually have any kind of SPAM protection enabled?
Yes. Have you been getting any spam from the list lately ?
I was just trying to indicate that a larger percentage of the messages have been announcements and re-announcements of a certain Python package recently, usually with little information and a high ratio of redundancy in them. While I do not deny that this package does have a certain relevance to this list and its readers, I would still prefer if the signal to noise ratio of this list was a little higher. I think it's worth keeping in mind that there is a dedicated list for Python related announcements, and there also seems to be a mailing list dedicated to the package in question. ISTM that both are better suited for regular update announcements than this list.
It's common practice to send announcements of Python packages/ projects relevant to list topics of SIGs to those SIG lists as well.
If you don't like those announcements in your inbox, it's easy to filter them based on the commonly used "ANN" prefix in the subject line.
I agree, though, that the list could use some more activity. So far, it's been mostly about helping with the existing C API rather than development of the C API itself - I guess the latter mostly happens on python-dev and the tracker.
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