From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752258Ab3LJPYi (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:24:38 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:59089 "EHLO mail-ea0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789Ab3LJPYe (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:24:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:24:30 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: David Miller Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, henrik@austad.us, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 tip/core/locking 0/4] Memory-barrier documentation updates Message-ID: <20131210152430.GA1103@gmail.com> References: <20131205105928.GA27382@austad.us> <20131205122851.GB20562@gmail.com> <20131205085146.0370ea2a@gandalf.local.home> <20131205.130524.997340443429884333.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131205.130524.997340443429884333.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * David Miller wrote: > From: Steven Rostedt > 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. Absolutely agreed - in fact huge Cc: lists are a PITA when committing patches: I have to trim them down to something reasonable, without losing important Cc: entries ... So vger is doing us a service there, and not just by filtering spam. Thanks, Ingo