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

[Terry Reedy]

"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.

tjr