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

[Gabriel Genellina]

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.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina