Spam

[Kottiyath]

Hi,
There seems to be lot of spam coming in this newsgroup.
Is it possible to have some mechanism similar to say - slashdot -
wherein mails can be moderated by any of the usual users?
This is required only for people who is posting for the first time
(or people who has been rated spam before). Second post onwards, no
moderation required.
Just wondering.

 

[Stephen Hansen]

There seems to be lot of spam coming in this newsgroup.

Is it possible to have some mechanism similar to say - slashdot -
wherein mails can be moderated by any of the usual users?
This is required only for people who is posting for the first time
(or people who has been rated spam before). Second post onwards, no
moderation required.
Just wondering.

C.P.L is an unmoderated newsgroup: so there's no content controls on
posts. I don't think that's possible to change. But I haven't gotten
directly near a newsgroup-as-a-newsgroup in eons, so I may be wrong.

If you subscribe to C.P.L as a mailing list instead of a newsgroup, I
believe most of the spam gets filtered out at the mailing list<->news
group gateway by the Python.org spam filters... At least no spam in my
Gmail spam folder appears to be flagged from this group(at a very
brief glance) so they appear to be doing quite well.

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list is the list
subscription page.

(C.P.L and python-list are essentially the same thing: things posted
to the list get forwarded to the newsgroup, and vice-versa)

--S

 

[Stephen Hansen]

C.P.L

C.L.P even.

Ahem.

--S

 

[Tim Chase]

If you subscribe to C.P.L as a mailing list instead of a

newsgroup, I believe most of the spam gets filtered out at the
mailing list<->news group gateway by the Python.org spam
filters... At least no spam in my Gmail spam folder appears to
be flagged from this group(at a very brief glance) so they
appear to be doing quite well.

Allow me to take this opportunity to thank the folks that *are*
doing/managing this spam-filtering of the mailing list side of
things -- the drastic drop in spam (from 6+ months back) is much
appreciated!

Though I guess this thread does beg the question: is there a way
to read the filtered mailing list with a newsreader (via NNTP)
instead of getting it delivered via email or subjecting oneself
to the spamminess of c.l.p? I like some of the "kill-thread"
types of options I've got on the NNTP side of readers that aren't
as readily available to me on the email side of things
(Thunderbird allows for thread-kills in News, but not in email).

-tkc

 

[TechieInsights]

Allow  me to take this opportunity to thank the folks that *are*
doing/managing this spam-filtering of the mailing list side of
things -- the drastic drop in spam (from 6+ months back) is much
appreciated!

Though I guess this thread does beg the question:  is there a way
to read the filtered mailing list with a newsreader (via NNTP)
instead of getting it delivered via email or subjecting oneself
to the spamminess of c.l.p?  I like some of the "kill-thread"
types of options I've got on the NNTP side of readers that aren't
as readily available to me on the email side of things
(Thunderbird allows for thread-kills in News, but not in email).

-tkc

Enhancement request for google: hide messages by a certain author

it would be individually set, but can get rid of a lot of junk at
once.

 

[Aahz]

i think i was remembering trn, which is now apparently dead. will try
slrn... thanks, andrew

trn 3.6 works fine for me ... just as it has for almost twenty years.

 

[Terry Reedy]

A quick search on "imap nntp" turned up this list that might be useful -
http://deflexion.com/messaging/ although I wonder when it was written
because I remember using Aaron's RSS to email aggregator when RSS was
new(!).

It mentions gmane, though, which certainly still exists (I assume it
carries this list too).

Yes. For everything possible, I read and post via gmane. Gmane mirrors
technical mailing lists. As near as I can tell, posts via gmane go to
the mailing list first, for whatever filtering the list does.
Conversely then, gmane only posts the filtered output from the mailing list.

> And this page suggests you can read gmane via
nntp - http://reticule.gmane.org/

news.gmane.org works fine.

 

[Terry Reedy]

Yes. For everything possible, I read and post via gmane. Gmane mirrors
technical mailing lists. As near as I can tell, posts via gmane go to
the mailing list first, for whatever filtering the list does. Conversely
then, gmane only posts the filtered output from the mailing list.


news.gmane.org works fine.

I just switched my Thunderbird gmane account to snews... and [x] use ssl
and it seems to work ok. It did, however, reset everything to unread.