Re: Linux 2.6.14.5

Lee Revell
2005-12-28T15:45:31Z

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:02 +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 15:01, Grant Coady wrote:
> > >On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:33:35 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller"
> > <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > >>Please report it to the netfilter mailing list, which is
> > >>where the netfilter developers listen and can attend to
> > >>your report.
> > >>
> > >>Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > >Why bother?
> > >
> > >"
> > >Your request to the netfilter-devel mailing list
> > >
> > > Posting of your message titled "Re: Linux 2.6.14.5"
> > >
> > >has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
> > >following reason for rejecting your request:
> > >
> > >"Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list."
> > >
> > >Any questions or comments should be directed to the list
> > > administrator at:
> > >
> > > netfilter-devel-owner@lists.netfilter.org
> > >"
> > >
> > >Grant.
> > >
> > I too have been rejected at that address. Like Grant, why bother seems
> > to be the appropriate response. If they want to here soonest when
> > there is a problem, then the moderator should clear what is obviously
> > not a spam message to the list in a reasonable time frame. Its never
> > happened to me but once and I was bascily told to "go away little
> > boy."
>
> Moderators of mailing lists scale badly compared to number
> China-hosted hosts spewing tons of TCP traffic to port 25...

So lose the moderation. It works fine on 10-20 other lists I am on and
we are not buried in spam.

Lee