Recent Spam problem

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 8:29:07 AM UTC+1, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 25/07/2017 06:13, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Of late there has been an explosion of spam
> > Thought it was only a google-groups (USENET?) issue and would be barred from the mailing list.
> >
> > But then find its there in the mailing list archives as well
> > Typical example: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2017-July/724085.html
> >
> > What gives??
> 
> I almost never look at the GG mirror (or Usenet) so it wasn't until the 
> post which started this thread that I realised just how much spam is 
> being thrown at the newsgroup.
> 

Hence why I asked a couple of weeks back why we don't just bin the existing group and start afresh with a new, properly moderated group.  I suggest a really innovative name like python-users :)

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.