From: Bogdan Costescu Subject: Re: Spam in the NFS list Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:16:49 +0200 (CEST) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <1052841825.13572.0.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jake Gold , Return-path: Received: from mail.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de ([129.206.104.30]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19FdOd-0003JQ-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 10:16:59 -0700 To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" In-Reply-To: <1052841825.13572.0.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On 13 May 2003, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > Have you ever looked at the number of bug reports on l-k from > non-subscribers that get listened to? It's approximately zero, and has > been for years. I cannot comment on this as I dropped off from l-k because of the high volume. Now, imagine the situation where your most important NFS server crashes, then crashes again and again and you start pulling your hair out not knowing what's happening and being pressed by your boss to find a solution. Would you be happy if in trying to contact the people that can help you you'd have to first subscribe to a mailing list _knowing_ that you have nothing in common and do not understand much of what is discussed on this list and would probably unsubscribe as soon as a solution was found for your problem ? Even more, I think this whole discussion is not very useful. If this list is the only one that you are subscribed to, then I understand your point. But even so, it might be archived somewhere without address protection and a spider will be able to find your address and send messages directly to you. If you'd be subscribed to tens of lists (like I am) you'd soon realize that you can't ask all lists to be closed just so that you are protected. The best solution is what _you_ can control, be it your own e-mail server with filtering, using procmail or just abusing the "d" key... -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs