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[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-05-21, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On 2007-05-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>> It doesn't all go through a central point - users like me who use a news 
>>> server to access the list submit articles through a local news server 
>>> using NNTP. While there *is* a single point of access for articles 
>>> pulled from python.org's news server and gatewayed out as email (and for 
>>> which the filters you mention probably ought to help), articles I see 
>>> have never been processed by this interface.
>>>
>> 	Which doesn't explain why only comp.lang.python, of the several
>> newsgroups I read, seems to be so spam-filled...
>
> Maybe I've got a better news server, but I don't see much spam
> at all in c.l.p.

To quantify things for curiosity's sake, I just scanned through
the last 1000 postings in c.l.p.  There was exactly 1 spam
message and two replies to spam messages complaining about
them.

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