Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: List spam References: <87hb5e6ahx.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:26:54 +1000 Message-ID: <87ippubbkh.fsf@benfinney.id.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Udyjqii9NyVGdv32ZwmGi24vlL4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 17 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 2b2ec4fe.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=>cKKVlUg9Kef3Y_QHDVbKhL?0kYOcDh@j7^o:UA4R?ceMT]ifIF12;e]G;2>V^?kWcbEW9A[5UK?eNZ[SL`C\Kgc5bcn\lGTQ6e Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11813 gene heskett writes: > Short answer is to disconnect the the NNTP link and make this list > into a REAL mailing list. Subscribers only, or get past a GOOD > captcha. Many of the more valuable contributors post via NNTP, which does not require mailing list subscription nor CAPTCHA. One of the compelling features of this forum is that newcomers to Python can post here without the hurdles you're describing. -- \ “We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives | `\ teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years | _o__) telling them to sit down and shut up.” —Phyllis Diller | Ben Finney