Re: Spam on this list

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2016-08-04T11:34:13Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net>
Cc: "XFS mail list" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: Spam on this list

> 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?

I completely agree, is a good idea to move to a new place where more filters
are already in place. It is a small change on user's side and benefits are
for everyone. I cannot see any cons to not do it. It probably will be the
best to keep also a message for newcommers and also for robots, that list
has been moved to vger and new way to subscribe.