From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin Schröder" <martin@oneiros.de>,
"Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Spam on list?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:18:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C73CB9.5000402@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702051306.34279.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 12:52, Martin Schröder wrote:
>> 05 Feb 2007 11:32:25 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>:
>>> Please don't do that. It means nothing can be cross posted
>>> from l-k anymore, which would be pretty bad.
>> Then set up a list admin who can approve such postings.
>
> That adds unacceptable latency. Also lists who spam senders
> with bounce messages tend to be dropped quickly from cc lists.
>
> Also you couldn't list xfs@ as bug report address anymore because
> bug report addresses must be available to everyone.
>
> In general it's a bad idea.
>
> -Andi
>
Well, I agree w/ those arguments too, Andi.
I honestly don't know why oss seems to have so much more spam than, say,
LKML. It is getting to a really bad level, and I sympathize with those
whose inboxes are bombarded, too.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-05 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-04 13:25 Spam on list? Justin Piszcz
2007-02-04 18:44 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-02-04 19:18 ` Emmanuel Florac
2007-02-04 21:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-02-05 10:32 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-05 9:59 ` Jason White
2007-02-05 11:52 ` Martin Schröder
2007-02-05 12:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-02-05 14:18 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-02-05 21:29 ` Sami Farin
2007-02-05 21:58 ` Nathan Scott
2007-02-05 23:47 ` Eric Sandeen
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