From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: Keith Keller <kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: list spam
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:52:27 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140218225227.GK28666@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5303D7DD.6030205@hardwarefreak.com>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:59:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 2/18/2014 3:22 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> ...
> > I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam
> > is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com list aliases.
> > Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears.
>
> 53/173, non-scientific, in my folders, so roughly 1/3rd of spam getting
> through the nets is addressed to the deprecated address. I agree, kill
> that alias.
>
> > FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists
> > directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others.
>
> Maybe my vision is skewed. The only other open list I sub is
> linux-raid@vger.kernel.org. It has a little less average volume than
> xfs, but only like one spam every few days gets through.
More likely my vision is skewed - I deal with a few thousand of
emails every day and delete most of them immediately without reading
anything other than the subject line(*). Spam is a tiny, tiny
percentage of the of mail I process every day....
Perspective ;)
Cheers,
Dave.
(*) The shiniest key on my keyboard is 'd', indicating it is the
most used key, all because I use it to delete mail ;)
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-18 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-18 16:13 list spam Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-18 17:25 ` Brent Bice
2014-02-18 19:44 ` Keith Keller
2014-02-18 21:22 ` Dave Chinner
2014-02-18 21:59 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-02-18 22:52 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-02-18 22:59 ` Troy McCorkell
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