why is this group being spammed?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/07/2010 18:01, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:32:30 -0700 (PDT), "be.krul"<be.krul at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> But maybe owner of this group do no care in that case we *all* get
>> spammed!
>
> 	There is NO OWNER of comp.lang.python; and turning a comp.* group
> into moderated takes a fairly long time assuming you can find someone
> willing to be the moderators -- what would likely happen is that
> comp.lang.python.moderated would be created and then take a few months
> to be picked up by the servers, and a few more months for the real users
> to leave comp.lang.python to use it.
>
> 	Oh, and also the hassle of the mailing-list<>usenet gateway (does it
> pass traffic to both groups, drop the existing one, etc.). And readers
> on Google may still see spam if Google takes posts stuff before it
> passes through the moderation board.

For the benefit of those who might have missed it, I'll repeat that I'm 
reading this from gmane.comp.python.general and see little or no spam.

Regards.

Mark Lawrence.