[IPython-user] replace IPython's mailing lists with a forum

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-12-22 15:37 PM, Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Robert Kern<robert.kern@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Google Groups has enormous problems with spam.
>
> The problem isn't too bad if you enable moderation (i.e. your first
> message will require moderator approval).

Please read the article I linked. It shows how spammers are now spoofing the 
identities of approved posters to get around the moderation.

http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/


-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco