why is this group being spammed?

[nero janick]

Brian,

would you like to volunteer?

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Brian J Mingus
<brian.mingus at colorado.edu>wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:01 PM, be.krul <be.krul at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> why is this group being spammed?
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>
> Here's a few of theories:
>
> 1) This isn't a strong enough community to warrant a group of people who
> moderate the list and make sure spam doesn't come through
> 2) Thousands of python hackers aren't smart enough to figure out how to
> stop spam
> 3) Whenever people post threads asking why this list is getting spammed
> they get heckled
> 4) Uber leet old skool script kiddies read the list through some mechanism
> that allows them to get rid of the spam, unlike the other 99% of us.
>



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