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Re: List spam

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On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:38 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine:

> "Jason Staudenmayer" <jasons@adventureaquarium.com> writes:
> > I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of
> > spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
> > scanned before it sent to the list?
> 
> I'm using nntp to read this newsgroup (through an academic server).
> No spam at all.
> 
> -- Alain.

Which I think re-enforces the conclusion I have reached, and that is that 
the most obnoxious spammer here is injecting his spam directly to a machine 
handling google's groups that is downstream of any filtering they claim to 
do.  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.
Spammers have stuff that can do the average captcha in a second or less, so 
choose the images wisely and randomize both the background and the text.

Cheers, gene
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The state of innocence contains the germs of all future sin.
		-- Alexandre Arnoux, "Etudes et caprices"

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List spam "Jason Staudenmayer" <jasons@adventureaquarium.com> - 2011-08-18 08:58 -0400
  Re: List spam Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-08-18 16:48 +0200
    Re: List spam gene heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2011-08-18 12:14 -0400
      Re: List spam Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-08-19 08:26 +1000
    Re: List spam Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-18 16:07 -0400
    Re: List spam Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-19 12:23 +1000
  Re: List spam gene heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2011-08-18 17:19 -0400
  RE: List spam "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2011-08-18 18:20 -0400
    Re: List spam Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-08-18 23:03 +0000
      Re: List spam Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 00:31 +0100

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