Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.033 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:spam': 0.04; 'python?': 0.05; 'python': 0.08; 'hat,': 0.09; 'php,': 0.09; 'am,': 0.12; 'subject:was': 0.15; 'apathy': 0.16; 'considers': 0.16; 'from:addr:alec.taylor6': 0.16; 'from:name:alec taylor': 0.16; 'newsgroup.': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'perl': 0.18; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.20; 'cc:2**0': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'stops': 0.23; 'works.': 0.23; 'there.': 0.24; 'aug': 0.24; 'statement': 0.25; "i'm": 0.27; 'host': 0.27; 'sat,': 0.28; 'url:mailman': 0.28; 'toward': 0.29; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.29; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.30; 'cycles': 0.30; 'peer': 0.30; 'threads': 0.30; 'list': 0.32; 'usually': 0.32; 'it.': 0.33; 'actually': 0.33; 'there': 0.33; 'url:listinfo': 0.33; 'weeks': 0.33; 'filter': 0.34; 'realize': 0.34; 'rather': 0.35; 'lists,': 0.35; 'post': 0.36; 'url:python': 0.36; 'doing': 0.36; 'another': 0.37; 'friday,': 0.37; 'impression': 0.37; 'but': 0.37; 'received:google.com': 0.38; 'url:org': 0.38; 'received:209.85': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'enough': 0.39; 'help': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'might': 0.40; "it's": 0.40; 'your': 0.61; 'central': 0.62; 'box,': 0.64; 'here': 0.65; 'attitude': 0.67; 'said:': 0.67; 'wish': 0.69; 'august': 0.70; 'funny': 0.74; '(each': 0.84; '17:12': 0.84; 'joke': 0.84; 'subject:Stop': 0.84; 'albert': 0.91; 'subject:Hot': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=D1IVO9/vqOsvBCaM6U+NxQA2yQ3VZ5yz2tVwWBo/VBE=; b=biSDLbVYHUwNDiOGAyMg49FLDC0m8HpT7ENchePzsVaKzXMdmAKO/qNCgaT2Isagk7 NrutlVdMk8Nhn31fMSijNp2JA2vlcmGUEAETPRm3HOS+X/xpKSEb0VlEu/v63P54CPqo JeHBjOLGq7TK+2y1KsTjTtFPScrxbMKvmHuKc= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1313796267.11691.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <94d457b9-30e5-4724-87b1-7450b18801b7@l7g2000vbz.googlegroups.com> <4e4ecae1$0$29990$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1313796267.11691.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:16:48 +1000 Subject: Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] From: Alec Taylor Cc: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 45 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1313828210 news.xs4all.nl 23866 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52391 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11902 On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > > > On Friday, August 19 at 17:12 (-0400), Matty Sarro said: > >> >> If you're that offended then spend the cycles fixing the damn list so >> it >> stops having so much spam. You realize spam comes in almost >> constantly, >> right? Enough that multiple tines over the past weeks there have been >> no >> less than 3 threads about it. > > For me, the original post ended in my spam box, which means my filter is > doing it's job, but when you re-post it, my filter did not regard it as > spam. =A0I actually wish it had. =A0Therefore you are an enabler. > > >> If php, red hat, and perl can manage it for their lists, why not >> python? Is >> that a statement about python programmers? >> > > The python list is (also) a Usenet newsgroup. =A0Usenet is distributed an= d > therefore there is no central place to filter spam (each usenet host > would have to have its own filter and what one considers spam another > might consider ham)... anyway, that's neither here nor there. =A0Having m= y > own filter usually works. > > I'm not here to dis you, just to try to help you understand the how/why > regarding the re-post and why your attitude about it might give the > impression of apathy toward your peer community. > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > I found said joke rather funny :P