Removing anti-Jewish postings from Python list

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 16 16:42:19 EDT 2010


On 16/06/2010 21:02, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On 6/16/10 12:21 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> I actually don't know how to report such things because of the
>> combination of c.l.py, gmane.comp.python.general and
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list, possibly others?.
>> Could somebody please show the correct direction?
>
> It depends on its source.
>
> If the email is posted on usenet, really the only hope you have is
> abuse@<their domain>  and prayer. I.e. abuse at theirisp.com
>
> Gmail has its own report form:
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=abuse
>
> If its over Google Groups, you can go find the offending message in
> Google Groups, and click 'more options', 'Report this Message' -- I have
> little hope this is very effective, considering the state of Groups.
>
> If its posted to the mailing list itself, the list admins can take
> action. I dunno how often they do (then again, this sort of stuff never
> originates from the mailing list)
>
>

Thanks Stephen,

But likely to be difficult as (presumably he) has already turned up this 
evening as smallpox.

Should we ever catch up with him, is there a module in the stdlib or on 
pypi that let's you stretch piano wire tightly around his testicles? 
And I'm *NOT* joking!

Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.




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