spam on this list

[Brad Allen]

This list seems to be picking up a fair amount of spam; we had the
same problem on the old soaplib mailing list which used Google groups.
Since we moved that list discussion to a new list on python.org, spam
has not been an issue.

Why not create a nose-users list on python.org, and deprecate this list?

[Kumar McMillan]

I, for one, am not a huge fan of the way archiving works on on
python.org lists. Also, another python.org list I'm on experiences
sporadic delays where one or two messages won't get delivered for up
to 5 hours and it creates all sorts of confusing replies. Grass is
always greener I suppose.

All the google groups I'm on got hit with the same spam so it was a
calculated attack. Aside from this recent outbreak Google Groups had
actually squashed spam for a lengthy period. However, yeah, it's
pretty annoying. Hopefully they are hard at work figuring out how to
prevent what hit them so hard :)

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[jason pellerin]

I had also turned new user moderation off for a while because of
google groups login bugs making it impossible for me to do any
moderation. It's back on now that I can moderate again, so I expect
the spam level to be lower from now on (well, at least the spam that
you all see).

JP

[sk...@pobox.com]

Jason> I had also turned new user moderation off for a while because of
Jason> google groups login bugs making it impossible for me to do any
Jason> moderation. It's back on now that I can moderate again, so I
Jason> expect the spam level to be lower from now on (well, at least the
Jason> spam that you all see).

I don't know what Google does after-the-fact to respond to spam reports, but
in my experience it seems to be "not much". I reported as spam an obviously
spammy post to another group three times over the past week. It's still
there.

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[Holger Krekel]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:08 PM, <sk...@pobox.com> wrote:
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>    Jason> I had also turned new user moderation off for a while because of
>    Jason> google groups login bugs making it impossible for me to do any
>    Jason> moderation. It's back on now that I can moderate again, so I
>    Jason> expect the spam level to be lower from now on (well, at least the
>    Jason> spam that you all see).
>
> I don't know what Google does after-the-fact to respond to spam reports, but
> in my experience it seems to be "not much".  I reported as spam an obviously
> spammy post to another group three times over the past week.  It's still
> there.

Bah. I also reported mails here as spam in the hope this leads to
others not getting the spam mail. Maybe "social spam-marking" isn't
implemented yet? :)
holger

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