anti-spam policy for c.l.py?

[_wolf]

On Jan 16, 3:11 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven a écrit :
>
> > -On [20080116 12:51], Bruno Desthuilliers (bruno.42.desthuilli... at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com) wrote:
> >> Apart from checking posts headers and complaining about the relevant
> >> ISPs, there's not much you can do AFAIK. This is usenet, not a mailing-list.
>
> > It is both actually. python-l... at python.org is linked to comp.lang.python due
> > to a news gateway.
>
> Yes, I know - but the OP explicitely mentionned c.l.py (re-read the
> title), not the ML.

technically correct, but the idea is of course to keep all those
archives relatively clean and informative. the new fad i've observed
seems to be to initiate whole threads where previously spam very often
stopped short of any second post.