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

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-09-27, George Sakkis <george.sakkis 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.

Yup.  Some non-spam gets filtered out as well.  IMO, it's worth
it.

-- 
Grant