spam update

[Shawn Milochik]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> With some help from the python.org postmasters over the weekend I figured
> out why some seemingly obvious spam messages seem to be making it to the
> python-list at python.org mailing list.  Messages gatewayed from Usenet don't
> pass through the spam filters.  Mailman simply distributes them.  There is
> still no resolution, but at least I understand the cause now.  For now,
> mailing list users please be patient as we try to resolve this issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/
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>

It's like the never-ending story. This exact explanation was given to
the list over six months ago (in April) , along with the message that
there's nothing that we can do about it. Actually, it's not the
"exact" explanation -- it was narrowed down to posts from Google
Groups, rather than Usenet in general.

At the time there was a lot of chatter on the list about people
"plonking" posts from Google Groups. That's "a" solution, if that's
where the spam comes from, but it penalizes the legitimate users who
don't subscribe to the mailing list.

Just for what it's worth. This is an ongoing problem (although it used
to be much worse), and it's a shame that we're going in circles.

Shawn