[Python-Dev] bugs in stdlib
David Ascher
DavidA@ActiveState.com
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:38:38 -0800
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
>
>>Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
>>
>>>If you saw that and chose to ignore my advice, I would've appreciated
>>>a reply at least.
>>
>>I did not. I would have heeded that advice.
>
>
> On reflection, more explanation seems called for...
>
> I've been flooded in a particularly repellent way recently. Somebody
> is using my From address for spam mail about quack remedies for
> prostate trouble, somebody so illiterate that the Subject line read
> "urnination flow".
We've been seeing misspellings as deliberate ways to get around word-list
filters. It's probably not illiteracy as much as wickedness.