nospam ** infinity?

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:19:38 AM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Skip Montanaro 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

I suspect that it's a big own goal as even stuff from the RUE is getting through.

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Mark Lawrence