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  • What is this TEST BANK stuff ?

    From Dan Kolis@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 21 06:37:47 2023
    Why do we tolerate this spam ?

    this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.

    That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and it woudl have to be a good one ); what is the purpsoe of this, why is it here ?

    Can it be eliminated ?

    Regards,
    Dan

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  • From Chris Angelico@21:1/5 to python-list@python.org on Thu Jun 22 02:59:28 2023
    On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 02:54, Dan Kolis via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:

    Why do we tolerate this spam ?

    this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.

    That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and it woudl have to be a good one ); what is the purpsoe of this, why is it here ?

    Can it be eliminated ?


    Yes, follow the mailing list instead of the newsgroup. Most spam
    doesn't reach us over here at the list.

    Sign up here: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

    ChrisA

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  • From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to Chris Angelico via Python-list on Wed Jun 21 11:08:06 2023
    On 2023-06-21, Chris Angelico via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
    On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 02:54, Dan Kolis via Python-list
    <python-list@python.org> wrote:

    Why do we tolerate this spam ?

    this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.

    That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and it woudl have to be a good one ); what is the purpsoe of this, why is it here ?

    Can it be eliminated ?


    Yes, follow the mailing list instead of the newsgroup. Most spam
    doesn't reach us over here at the list.

    Sign up here: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

    If you want to stick with NNTP as your access protocol, you can follow
    the list on gmane:

    nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.python.general

    However, the list recently stopped accepting posts via gmane, so
    you'll need to configure your nntp client to e-mail posts to that
    group.

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  • From neopolitan@21:1/5 to Dan Kolis on Thu Jul 6 01:02:17 2023
    On 6/21/23 08:37, Dan Kolis wrote:
    Why do we tolerate this spam ?

    this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.

    That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and it woudl have to be a good one ); what is the purpsoe of this, why is it here ?

    Can it be eliminated ?

    Regards,
    Dan

    tl;dr It would be difficult to without changing the group to be
    moderated. I am very new but am working to build up a list of known
    spammers so I can auto-delete their nonsense from my machine.

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  • From Dan Kolis@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 6 04:26:36 2023
    It would be difficult to without changing the group to be
    moderated. I am very new but am working to build up a list of known
    spammers so I can auto-delete their nonsense from my machine.


    Dan says:
    Lifes full of things that are suboptimum an dmust be just toerated; this is one of those I suppose.

    A remider expensive books given freely on USENET ( + ) google groups are 100% virus injected payloads.

    Avoiding them is a good idea.

    This is what killed usenet, and enabled fb really. A Strange tradeoff.

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  • From a a@21:1/5 to Dan Kolis on Thu Jul 6 05:23:35 2023
    On Wednesday, 21 June 2023 at 15:38:00 UTC+2, Dan Kolis wrote:
    Why do we tolerate this spam ?

    this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.

    That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and it woudl have to be a good one ); what is the purpsoe of this, why is it here ?

    Can it be eliminated ?

    Regards,
    Dan


    Just call Google guys and ask, why usenet groups turned DejaNews, aquired by Google in the past
    are not protected against massive spam by a single easy script

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  • From Chris Angelico@21:1/5 to python-list@python.org on Fri Jul 7 05:30:47 2023
    On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 03:33, neopolitan via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:

    On 6/21/23 08:37, Dan Kolis wrote:
    Why do we tolerate this spam ?

    this seems most likely a way to inject viruses into people's workflow.

    That wiped out usenet. Ahh without an explaination; ( and it woudl have to be a good one ); what is the purpsoe of this, why is it here ?

    Can it be eliminated ?

    Regards,
    Dan

    tl;dr It would be difficult to without changing the group to be
    moderated. I am very new but am working to build up a list of known
    spammers so I can auto-delete their nonsense from my machine.

    Yeah, a few people worked on that. Turns out though, you can save
    yourself a LOT of trouble by letting the python-list admins manage
    that blocklist :)

    ChrisA

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