linux-kernel - Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list?

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Date:	Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:16:31 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	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, 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.

Cheers,
Willy

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