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  Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 11:12 +1100
    Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-02 07:16 +0000

#18302 — Re: Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

On 01/02/2012 09:33 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 1/1/12 10:18 PM, Matt Chaput wrote:
>> Someone seems to be spamming PyPI by uploading multiple stupid
>> packages. Not sure if it's some form of advertising spam or just idiocy.
>>
>> Don't know if we should care though... maybe policing uploads is worse
>> than cluttering PyPI's disk space and RSS feed with dumb 1 KB packages.
>>
>>> girlfriend 1.0.1 10 A really simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> girlfriends 1.0 4 Girl Friends
>>> car 1.0 2 Car, a depended simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> house 1.0 2 House, a depended simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> money 1.0 2 Money, a depended simple module that allow everyone to do
>>> "import girlfriend"
>>> workhard 1.0 2 Keep working hard, a depended simple module that allow
>>> everyone to do "import girlfriend"
>
> I'm betting on a joke, like antigravity only significantly less funny
> and more sexist. The author is a legitimate Python programmer, and the
> links go to his blog where he talks about Python stuff.

Legitimate python programmer or not, that does not legitimize spamming 
PyPI.

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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:12:28 +1100, Lie Ryan wrote:

> Legitimate python programmer or not, that does not legitimize spamming
> PyPI.

I don't see that half a dozen trivial (pointless) modules should be 
classified as spam.

Personally, I've looked at the modules, and if I were the author, I'd be 
embarrassed to make them public. They aren't useful; they are rather 
immature; they don't demonstrate good Python knowledge or programming 
skill.


-- 
Steven

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