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 3519C7F83 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:59:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from estes.americas.sgi.com (estes.americas.sgi.com [128.162.236.10]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1586030408E for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.162.232.11] (porter.americas.sgi.com [128.162.232.11]) by estes.americas.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD53E7002884 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:59:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <5303E5C1.2040606@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:59:13 -0600 From: Troy McCorkell MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: list spam References: <530386A3.1000604@hardwarefreak.com> <53039793.4040809@sgi.com> <20140218212232.GG13647@dastard> <5303D7DD.6030205@hardwarefreak.com> <20140218225227.GK28666@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20140218225227.GK28666@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 02/18/2014 04:52 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > 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 ;) > I'll talk with the SGI IT group about disabling the linux-xfs mail alias. Thanks, Troy _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs