Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list
Deadly Dirk
dirk at pfln.invalid
Wed Jun 16 21:49:40 EDT 2010
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:50:45 -0700, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote:
>> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'? Will it eventually go away if
>> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up
>> this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers?
>
> The problem is, this forum has lots of access points. Its not entirely a
> mailing list. Its also a usenet newsgroup (utterly uncontrollable). Its
> got multiple bidirectional mirrors. The python-list version of the group
> is fortunately largely free from spam as its spam filters are pretty
> solid, but other access points vary.
>
> I *think* from looking at his headers, he's posting via Google Groups.
> FWIW, since its a Gmail user, I've reported him for abuse to both the
> Gmail and Google Groups teams. If they decide to do anything, who knows.
> I've also reported all his mails as Spam, so hopefully they'll just get
> junked. Maybe the python-list spam filters can be tweaked, who knows.
>
> He'll probably always show up on the usenet/Google Groups part of things
> though. Cuz Google's notoriously bad at controlling spam on Groups(*)
He's posting from sbcglobal.net, I reported him to abuse at sbcglobal.net
for spamming an unrelated group with antisemitic spam.
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