Re: [PATCH v4 tip/core/locking 0/4] Memory-barrier documentation updates

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:05:24PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:51:46 -0500
> 
> > I wish vger wouldn't do that. I wonder how much spam is really flagged
> > by this one characteristic alone. That is, spam that would have made it
> > otherwise, but because of the Cc list, it was rejected.
> 
> 10 to 20 spam posts per day are prevented by this rule.
> 
> And frankly it's totally rediculous to have such a huge CC: list
> in the first place, even if the vger spam filter didn't exist.
> 
> If you CC: something to netdev, it's going to reach me, you don't need
> to CC: me.  If just makes for a dup that I have to delete in my inbox,
> so you're actually making more work for me in the end.
> 
> That's just one example.

Hello, David,

The situation that leads me to use a large CC list is when I am doing
something that affects all architectures.  I could imagine keeping a
smallish CC list, then forwarding or bouncing the email to the remaining
maintainers  Would that work reasonably, or is there some better approach?

							Thanx, Paul