Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030197AbWHHUZ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:25:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932237AbWHHUZ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:25:27 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:36036 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932227AbWHHUZ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:25:27 -0400 Subject: Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list? From: Lee Revell To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Alan Cox , Andi Kleen , Alexey Zaytsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matti.aarnio@zmailer.org In-Reply-To: <20060808191631.GF8776@1wt.eu> References: <1155047956.5729.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060808191631.GF8776@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:25:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1155068717.26338.100.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 30 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/