Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161295AbWHJO7B (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:59:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161299AbWHJO7A (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:59:00 -0400 Received: from fysh.org ([83.170.75.51]:52098 "EHLO bowl.fysh.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161295AbWHJO7A (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:59:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:58:57 +0100 From: Athanasius To: Lee Revell , linux-kernel Cc: Willy Tarreau , Alan Cox , Andi Kleen , Alexey Zaytsev , matti.aarnio@zmailer.org Subject: Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list? Message-ID: <20060810145857.GI2242@miggy.org> Mail-Followup-To: Athanasius , Lee Revell , linux-kernel , Willy Tarreau , Alan Cox , Andi Kleen , Alexey Zaytsev , matti.aarnio@zmailer.org References: <1155047956.5729.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060808191631.GF8776@1wt.eu> <1155068717.26338.100.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1155068717.26338.100.camel@mindpipe> X-gpg-fingerprint: B34E4BC3 X-gpg-key: http://www.fysh.org/~athan/gpg-key User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 30 On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:25:16PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > 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: > > > 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. There's no reason not to put that tag at the END of the subjectline. Of course I'm assuming automatic filtering based on it. Although in that case it could as easily be a X-NonSub: Yes header. -Ath -- - Athanasius = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME - 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/