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Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]

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Date	2011-08-20 18:16 +1000
Subject	Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...]
From	Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.253.1313828210.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Albert W. Hopkins
<marduk@letterboxes.org> 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.  I actually wish it had.  Therefore 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.  Usenet is distributed and
> 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.  Having my
> 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

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Hot Girls are Looking for Sex Sajjad Ahmad <sajjad.ahmad009@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 11:38 -0700
  Re: Hot Girls are Looking for Sex Matty Sarro <msarro@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 16:17 -0400
    Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-20 06:43 +1000
      Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 17:10 -0400
      Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2011-08-19 17:35 -0400
      Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 17:10 -0400
      Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-08-19 19:24 -0400
      Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 18:16 +1000
      Re: Stop quoting spam [was Re: Hot Girls ...] "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2011-08-19 17:40 -0400
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