Are spams on comp.lang.python a major nuisance?

[Aaron "Castironpi" Brady]

On Sep 26, 9:09 pm, George Sakkis <george.sak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 9:30 pm, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2008-09-26, nntpman68 <news1... at free.fr> wrote:
>
> > > Hm,
>
> > > I guess you just filter mailing lists and can do nothing about the
> > > newsgroup if I'm fetching via the nntp server of my ISP itself, right?
>
> > I read the group via NNTP, and I find that blocking all
> > articles posted from google.groups gets rid of all of the spam.
>
> ... along with a far from trivial (I guess) percentage of non-spam,
> such as this post.
>
> And-nothing-of-value-was-lost'ly yrs,
> George

Every method has false positives, George.  (including this one.)