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Re: Defamation

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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.

Laura

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