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[Steve Holden]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 18/05/07, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Is this list not moderated? I'm really not interested in Britney
>>> Spears boobs. All the spam on this list is from the same place, it
>>> should be very easy to filter.
>>>
>> Is it a list, is it a newsgroup? No, it's c.l.py!
>>
>> In fact you could be reading this in a number of different forms, and
>> there are equally many ways to inject content into the stream. It's
>> surprisingly difficult to filter everything out, though the list
>> managers at python.org seem to do a remarkably effective job.
> 
> I don't believe that a python list manager would have a hard time
> coming up with a regex that /dev/nulled any post with the words
> "britney", "spears", "boobs", "tits", or the like.
> 
>> I'm not particularly interested in that subject matter either, but
>> believe me there could be a lot more of that kind of thing than actually
>> makes it through!
> 
> And if it doesn''t start getting filtered now, the spammers will see
> this list as an easy target and will attack it. Believe me.
> 

I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Most of what 
can be done *is* being done, which is why you see the relatively low 
spam volumes you do.

regards
  Steve
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