From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262953AbTDZT4K (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:56:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262964AbTDZT4K (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:56:10 -0400 Received: from jive.SoftHome.net ([66.54.152.27]:52443 "HELO jive.SoftHome.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262953AbTDZT4J (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:56:09 -0400 From: b_adlakha@softhome.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ChangeLog suggestion Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:08:22 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [210.214.82.30] Message-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 26 April 2003 23:59, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Sat, 26 April 2003 11:06:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Personally, I want to have some address that I can reach the author at, > > and if that means that spammers can pick it up too (open source means > > that everybody has the same stuff _I_ have) I guess people who want to > > talk to me need to live with spam filters or send patches to me from > > special accounts. > > It's not that bad. Since I started posting to lkml, my daily spam > dosis has risen from one to three, roughly. Annoying, but not a big > problem, even without filters. > > Jörn All the spam comes because of the archives of this mailing list stored as HTML in thousands of places. The web-spider programs used by the spammers are sure to find atleast one. My inbox is full of stuff like "Strictly Confidental" and "your solution to never ending spam"