Re: Spam on list?

[Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:18 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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.

*nod*, it really cannot become a closed list.

> 
> 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.

Another option would be to move the list to vger.kernel.org and have
it spam protected by whatever they're successfully using over there
already (or maybe ask Davem what they're using and replicate on oss?).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan