why is this group being spammed?

[Jia Hu]

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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jia Hu <hujia06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, can I subscribe this by gmail?
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 24/07/2010 18:01, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:32:30 -0700 (PDT), "be.krul"<be.krul at gmail.com>
>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>>
>>> But maybe owner of this group do no care in that case we *all* get
>>>> spammed!
>>>>
>>>
>>>        There is NO OWNER of comp.lang.python; and turning a comp.* group
>>> into moderated takes a fairly long time assuming you can find someone
>>> willing to be the moderators -- what would likely happen is that
>>> comp.lang.python.moderated would be created and then take a few months
>>> to be picked up by the servers, and a few more months for the real users
>>> to leave comp.lang.python to use it.
>>>
>>>        Oh, and also the hassle of the mailing-list<>usenet gateway (does
>>> it
>>> pass traffic to both groups, drop the existing one, etc.). And readers
>>> on Google may still see spam if Google takes posts stuff before it
>>> passes through the moderation board.
>>>
>>
>> For the benefit of those who might have missed it, I'll repeat that I'm
>> reading this from gmane.comp.python.general and see little or no spam.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Mark Lawrence.
>>
>>
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