anti-spam policy for c.l.py?

[Dustan]

On Jan 16, 11:31 am, _wolf <wolfgang.l... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The ones that have received more than 2 responses have, the vast
majority of the time, been cross posts.