Proposal: Disconnect comp.lang.python from python-list

[Paul Bryan]

What's involved in moderating c.l.p? Would there be volunteers willing
to do so?

On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 00:43 +0000, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
> On 2021-05-06, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:32 AM Paul Bryan <pbryan at anode.ca> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Given the ease of spoofing sender addresses, and its propensity
> > > for use
> > > in anonymous spamming and trolling (thanks python-list-owner for
> > > staying on top of that!), I propose to disconnect
> > > comp.lang.python from
> > > the python-list mailing list. Both would then operate
> > > independently.
> > > 
> > 
> > As someone who exclusively follows the mailing list, I selfishly
> > want
> > to support this, as it would notably improve the signal-to-noise
> > ratio. But I'm aware that there are a number of good people who
> > currently use the newsgroup, and those people would then be
> > abandoned
> > in the cess-pool.
> 
> Counter-proposal that I have suggested several times before that
> would
> solve both these problems: make the newsgroup moderated.
> 
> (Or, I suppose, create comp.lang.python.moderated and gateway it
> to the mailing list, and disconnect comp.lang.python from the list.)