nospam ** infinity?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There seems to be a gateway loop of some sort going on.
>> I'm seeing multiple versions of the same posts in
>> comp.lang.python with different numbers of "nospam"s
>> prepended to the email address.
>
> This is the second thread about this. I was thinking it might be
> related to recent changes to the gate_news process on mail.python.org,
> but this fingerprint looks nothing like what gate_news does.
>
> Looking at a somewhat long-ish thread:
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.python/YoxLtkzlt_o/discussion
>
> I see a couple posts from Chris Angelico, only some of which have a
> "nospam" preface. It would seem that someone was trying to mark
> certain posters as "not spammy," (I'm sure Chris is flattered) and
> somehow posts with that private marking leaked out of the user's
> system starting in the past twelve hours or so.
>
> Newsreader configuration problem?

More likely, someone was trying to obscure the email addresses, but
managed to tag my name instead. Definitely looks like some sort of
automation failure. The only question is, whose? If it's not from
gate_news, there's someone here on the list/ng that is (probably
accidentally) reposting everything.

ChrisA