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  Re: Defamation Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-10-19 17:36 +0100

#97817 — Re: Defamation

On 19/10/2015 17:29, Laura Creighton wrote:
> In a message of Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:36:37 -0600, Michael Torrie writes:
>> On 10/19/2015 08:14 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:31 AM, gaini2002--- via Python-list
>>> <python-list@python.org> wrote:
>>>> Please remove the page
>>>
>>> That page is just spam that someone sent to the newsgroup/mailing
>>> list. You can ignore it, same as the rest of us do.
>>>
>>> Even if the page were to be removed, the same content has already been
>>> posted to myriad news servers the world over, many of which archive
>>> all posts. There's no way to remove it from everywhere.
>>
>> Guess spam filtering is getting good as I don't recall ever seeing the
>> original message last year, thank goodness. The message in question is
>> not just ordinary spam.  It is very specific spam, focused entirely on
>> one person, claiming all kinds of bizarre things, with the intent to
>> skew google search results to show this message when people search for
>> that name.  Clearly the post is from a mentally ill person as it barely
>> makes much sense.
>>
>> While it's true that this message has now been duplicated across Usenet,
>> it certainly can be removed from the pipermail archives.  The OP can
>> email python-list-owner@python.org and request it.  It may not happen
>> but it doesn't hurt to ask.
>
> I've already asked postmaster, which is the place where such things get
> done.  There was something close to 100 of these things originally.

... and I've been kicking them out of moderation at the rate of about 2 
a week ever since, I think. (At least: that's what it feels like).

TJG

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