From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266477AbUJNQDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266491AbUJNQDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:03:11 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:53295 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266477AbUJNQDH (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:03:07 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:03:06 -0700 From: Ken Brush Reply-To: Ken Brush To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Spam on the list In-Reply-To: <416EA06E.3050608@colannino.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <416EA06E.3050608@colannino.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:51:10 -0700, James Colannino 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