why is this group being spammed?

[Jia Hu]

Hi, can I subscribe this by gmail?

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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