[Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

[Chris Withers]

On 04/06/2013 07:33, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
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>> Please can you do something to stop it?
>> Kill the MTA or something?
>>
>> This is ridiculous…
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> As someone also in the top percentile of package maintainers I understand your annoyance, but just make a filter for donald at python.org for the day or something. The vast majority of PyPI users have only one package so asking us to derail the sending (probably resulting in having to begin again) is unhelpful. If the only cost to us all is hitting Ctrl-A Delete, I welcome progress with open arms.

Are you not concerned that various bits of python.org involved in this 
process are going to start getting hit by RBLs and other spam filtering 
that will cause problems down the line as a result of all this noise?

Chris

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