linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 tip/core/locking 0/4] Memory-barrier documentation updates

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Message-ID: <20131210152430.GA1103@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:24:30 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, henrik@...tad.us, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 tip/core/locking 0/4] Memory-barrier documentation
 updates


* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:51:46 -0500
> 
> > I wish vger wouldn't do that. I wonder how much spam is really flagged
> > by this one characteristic alone. That is, spam that would have made it
> > otherwise, but because of the Cc list, it was rejected.
> 
> 10 to 20 spam posts per day are prevented by this rule.
> 
> And frankly it's totally rediculous to have such a huge CC: list
> in the first place, even if the vger spam filter didn't exist.

Absolutely agreed - in fact huge Cc: lists are a PITA when committing 
patches: I have to trim them down to something reasonable, without 
losing important Cc: entries ...

So vger is doing us a service there, and not just by filtering spam.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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