RE: Spam on this list

Troy McCorkell
2016-08-04T13:40:08Z

On Wed, Aug 03,2016 at 6:15PM Dave Chinner wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:34:58PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> On 2016-08-03 15:21, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>>
>> > Lista, Carlos, I recommend: If you are concerned about spam on the list
>> > contact the listmasters of it. They are the ones that can address it globally
>> > for the list.
>>
>> Oh, I did, long ago. Still waiting.
>
>Yes, that is the fundamental issue - spam filtering is essentially
>controlled by SGI's internal infrastructure, which we have little
>option on.
>
>What it comes down to is whether we continue to use this list
>(xfs@oss.sgi.com) or whether we move to linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
>so we get much more robust and up-to-date spam filtering. The issue
>with doing this is forcing everyone to resubscribe, and then
>capturing everything that is still sent to xfs@oss.sgi.com.
>
>That said, I'm seriously tempted right now just to say "we're moving
>to vger" and asking everyone to resubscribe to that list, and then
>making xfs@oss.sgi.com respond with "list moved to vger, please
>repost there". i.e. not even put a forwarding gateway in place.
>
>If we do that, then I'll also shut down all the XFS git trees on
>oss.sgi.com - I'll add commits to the them to say "go to
>kernel.org". I'll need to work something out for the tarball
>releases, but kernel.org does have functionality for that, too, so
>that may just be a small change of process on my end (i.e. use kup).
>Once that is done, we'll be running completely on community provided
>infrastructure....
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dave.
>--
>Dave Chinner
>david@fromorbit.com

Dave,

It's probably the best option to move the mailing list to vger.
Let me know what we can do to facilitate the move.

Thanks,
Troy