Re: What can we do about all the spam that the list is getting?

In article <w56dnSenjuIcyJrVnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@visi>,
Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-04-16, Mark Shroyer <usenet-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<f9fa48f0-0240-48c2-b9b3-ee7bcafb4c5e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mensanator <mensanator@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 16, 12:01?pm, sr...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
What can we do about all the spam that comp.lang.python is getting?
Things are getting pretty bad.

Buy Google and make them fix it.

I've had pretty good luck with MT-NewsWatcher, a freeware Mac
newsreader that performs Bayesian spam filtering.
Thunderbird's Usenet reader also offers Bayesian filtering,
which presumably works just as well for classifying Usenet
spam as it does at handling email spam.

So download a "real" NNTP client for whatever platform you're
on and give its spam filter a shot; clearly Google is not
interested in fighting spam itself.

Plonking anything posted via google.groups is the simplest
answer.

Yes, but it's hard to give him that advice with a straight face until
I've convinced him to stop using Google Groups to begin with ;)

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