Newsgroups and mailing lists (was Re: Slightly OT: Why all the spam?)

[Steve Holden]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Thu, 24 May 2007 21:53:24 -0300, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>  
> escribió:
> 
>> "Aahz" <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote in message
>> news:f34qpt$3oh$1 at panix3.panix.com...
>> | First of all, if you're accessing python-list as comp.lang.python,  
>> you're
>> | accessing a newsgroup, *not* a mailing list.  Secondly, c.l.py is an
>> | unmoderated group; there is no moderator and no control over who posts.
>> | However, netnews (Usenet) has a mechanism for cancelling articles, and
>> | cancelbots send out cancel messages for spam articles.
>>
>> This does not address the issue of spam passing thru python-list, which I
>> believe is supposed to be somewhat moderated (by people who have rejected
>> my help to catch spam) to gmane, where I read it.  I presume this is the
>> path for stuff injected via google.  Or perhaps stuff flows the other  
>> way. I am not sure.  Or perhaps it it injected independently in both or  
>> all
>> three places.
> 
> Or four or N places; anybody can post using any other nntp server that  
> carries this group (if the server allows him, of course). Mailing lists  
> are easier to control because there is a single entry point; news aren't  
> that way.
> 
I *did* try to explain all this a week or two ago. Did I not make myself 
clear?

regards
  Steve
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