Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964936AbWHIIsj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:48:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964967AbWHIIsj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:48:39 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:24252 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964936AbWHIIsi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 04:48:38 -0400 Message-ID: <44D9A0A6.7070808@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:45:26 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060713) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Zaytsev CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1539 Lines: 37 Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > Hello, list. > > What are the objections to makeing lkml and other lists at vget > subscribers-only? > Non-subscribers messages could still be allowed after moderation. > I get 1/4 of my spam from lkml, and see no benefit from allowing > non-subscribers to freely post to the list. If you are not subscribed, > you just have to wait until your mail gets approved by the moderator, > and it is not hard to subscribe anyway. This doesn't really prevent spam - the spammers can subscribe - post spam - unsubscribe or subscribe from free webmail accounts that they don't care about anyway. The moderator setup have the problem that nobody wants to be moderator. Today, you are moderator of your own lkml mailbox, and you hate that. :-/ I don't filter my lkml mail, yet the spam is not a problem for me. I receive lkml in a mailbox of its own, and the few spam messages are obvious from the subject line alone. So I never read them, just delete them along with the mass deletion of other uninteresting messages. (I.e. issues with hw I don't have.) Most mail systems allow you to filter lkml into a mailbox of its own. Mail readers like mozilla or mutt lets you skip dubious messages easily, mozilla even have a filter of its own if you care to use it. Helge Hafting - 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/