[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.