[Distutils] Preemptive Apology for Volume of Mail

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> On 04/06/2013 07:33, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
>> 
>>> Please can you do something to stop it?
>>> Kill the MTA or something?
>>> 
>>> This is ridiculous…
>> 
>> 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?

No, because only a very small number of people are going to be getting more than a handful of these, and any user with 50+ packages is hopefully enough of a power-user to not fly off the handle.

--Noah

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