Defamation

[Michael Torrie]

On 10/19/2015 08:14 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:31 AM, gaini2002--- via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> Please remove the page
>
> That page is just spam that someone sent to the newsgroup/mailing
> list. You can ignore it, same as the rest of us do.
> 
> Even if the page were to be removed, the same content has already been
> posted to myriad news servers the world over, many of which archive
> all posts. There's no way to remove it from everywhere.

Guess spam filtering is getting good as I don't recall ever seeing the
original message last year, thank goodness. The message in question is
not just ordinary spam.  It is very specific spam, focused entirely on
one person, claiming all kinds of bizarre things, with the intent to
skew google search results to show this message when people search for
that name.  Clearly the post is from a mentally ill person as it barely
makes much sense.

While it's true that this message has now been duplicated across Usenet,
it certainly can be removed from the pipermail archives.  The OP can
email python-list-owner at python.org and request it.  It may not happen
but it doesn't hurt to ask.