Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

[geremy condra]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Stephen Hansen
<me+list/python at ixokai.io> wrote:
> On 6/16/10 10:56 AM, Alan Harris-Reid wrote:
>> Any idea how we get rid of this 'noise'?  Will it eventually go away if
>> we ignore it, or is there anything the moderators can do to clean-up
>> this (normally) wonderful resource for Python programmers?
>
> The problem is, this forum has lots of access points. Its not entirely a
> mailing list. Its also a usenet newsgroup (utterly uncontrollable). Its
> got multiple bidirectional mirrors. The python-list version of the group
> is fortunately largely free from spam as its spam filters are pretty
> solid, but other access points vary.
>
> I *think* from looking at his headers, he's posting via Google Groups.
> FWIW, since its a Gmail user, I've reported him for abuse to both the
> Gmail and Google Groups teams. If they decide to do anything, who knows.
> I've also reported all his mails as Spam, so hopefully they'll just get
> junked. Maybe the python-list spam filters can be tweaked, who knows.
>
> He'll probably always show up on the usenet/Google Groups part of things
> though. Cuz Google's notoriously bad at controlling spam on Groups(*)
>
> --
>
>   Stephen Hansen
>   ... Also: Ixokai
>   ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io
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>
> P.S. This is something which confuses me greatly. Considering how
> *great* the spam filters are on Gmail-- I literally get virtually
> nothing in my inbox-- how in world are Google Groups so full of junk?
> They doesn't Google run the groups messages through similar filters? Sigh.

I have never understood this. On the positive side, if you use gmail
you can set up a filter to auto-junk his rants.

Geremy Condra