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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:25:16 -0400 From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, matti.aarnio@...iler.org Subject: Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list? On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 21:16 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:39:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ar Maw, 2006-08-08 am 13:23 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > > > You would make bug reports impossible from normal people who > > > don't want to subscribe fully. It would totally wreck the > > > development model. > > > > Only if applied without imagination. > > > > Tag subject lines from non subscribes with [nonsub] and everyone can > > then decide for themselves. > > This looks like a very clever yet simple idea (if easy to implement at all) ! > While I have no anti-spam and am not annoyed at all by the low spam rate on > LKML, I think this would make my cleaning operations even more effective. That would mean 8 fewer characters of useful information visible in the subject line. The spam ratio on LKML is so low that I think this cure would be worse than the disease. Why can't the minority of LKML readers who have absolutely zero tolerance for spam just filter locally? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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