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From: Ken Brush <kbrush@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spam on the list
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:03:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef88c0e0041014090337d6f611@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416EA06E.3050608@colannino.org>

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:51:10 -0700, James Colannino <lkml@colannino.org> wrote:
> I was just thinking that the list receives a lot of spam.  Shouldn't the
> list be locked down to be posted to by subsribers only as to curb the
> bulk of that spam?  That's how most mailing lists I'm on are and it
> works well.  Please don't flame me for this... :)  Just thought I'd
> mention it.
> 

They already filter a lot of stuff. And I believe that they are
constantly adding to the filters.

As for making it subscriber-only, that would just make the list less
open. And we like really, really open lists that don't shut out any
opinions.

-Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-14 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-14 15:51 Spam on the list James Colannino
2004-10-14 16:03 ` Ken Brush [this message]
2004-10-14 16:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-14 18:41   ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-10-14 20:58     ` Lee Revell
2004-10-14 21:25     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-10-14 22:40       ` 2.8.6.1 deadlock and ext3/i2o corruption (Was: Spam on the list) Nate Riffe
2004-10-14 16:05 ` Spam on the list Jesper Juhl
2004-10-14 17:04 ` Ben Pfaff

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