List spam

[Tim Golden]

On 18/08/2011 13:58, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
> I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount
> of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get
> scanned before it sent to the list?

I haven't seen any significant quantity of spam on the list for ages. 
(The occasional one does get through although I can't remember the last).

I always access it as a mailing list, and I seem to recall that
the newsgroup feed isn't filtered the same way as the mailing list is.

TJG