What can we do about all the spam that the list is getting?

[Mark Shroyer]

In article 
<f9fa48f0-0240-48c2-b9b3-ee7bcafb4c5e at f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
 Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:

> On Apr 16, 12:01 pm, sr... at ferg.org wrote:
> > What can we do about all the spam that comp.lang.python is getting?
> > Things are getting pretty bad.
> 
> Buy Google and make them fix it.

I've had pretty good luck with MT-NewsWatcher, a freeware Mac newsreader 
that performs Bayesian spam filtering.  Thunderbird's Usenet reader also 
offers Bayesian filtering, which presumably works just as well for 
classifying Usenet spam as it does at handling email spam.

So download a "real" NNTP client for whatever platform you're on and 
give its spam filter a shot; clearly Google is not interested in 
fighting spam itself.

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Mark Shroyer
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