why is this group being spammed?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/07/2010 20:28, Jia Hu wrote:
> I subscribe for this mailing list at
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

I read through Thunderbird on Windows direct to 
gmane.comp.python.general.  I'm no expert on such things, but assume 
that they are simply better [or less profitable :)] at filtering spam 
than the diabolical google groups.  I'm unsure as to how the main 
mailing list that is given above works, I'm sure that someone more 
knowledgable than myself will soon let us know.

Regards.

Mark Lawrence.