Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:31:40 -0500, skip wrote:

> I took over spam filter management for the python.org mailing lists a
> couple months ago and made a few changes to the way the spam filter is
> trained. Things seem to be at a reasonable level as far as I can tell (I
> see a few spams leak through each day), though I wasn't actively reading
> comp.lang.python/python-list at python.org before I took over the task, so
> I have nothing to compare with.  Does the level of spam leaking through
> the filter now seem excessive?  Is it more or less than in June and
> July?


I don't have any objective numbers, but subjectively it seems to me that 
the number of spams is significantly higher, but not so high as to be a 
major nuisance.


-- 
Steven