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To: Stuart Young <sgy@amc.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Volunteer to code a Patchbot 
In-Reply-To: Message from Stuart Young <sgy@amc.com.au> 
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:05:04 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Stuart Young <sgy@amc.com.au> said:

[...]

> Possibly, but then it'll reply to the spammer and you'll get bounces left 
> and right. Perhaps it's a simple case that the patcher submitting will have 
> to have registered the email address before submitting their patch. Only 
> needs to be done once (not every time a patch is submitted, that's mad!), 
> and weeds out the noise.

And then lkml will be swamped with questions as to why the automated patch
system doesn't work, or it will just not be used at all because it is more
work than just firing off a patch at lkml.
-- 
Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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