From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EE47F6B for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:52:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5C330408E for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id onjkyr83hT1QcUq7 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:52:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:52:27 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: list spam Message-ID: <20140218225227.GK28666@dastard> References: <530386A3.1000604@hardwarefreak.com> <53039793.4040809@sgi.com> <20140218212232.GG13647@dastard> <5303D7DD.6030205@hardwarefreak.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5303D7DD.6030205@hardwarefreak.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Stan Hoeppner Cc: Keith Keller , xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs