Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:24:30 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 tip/core/locking 0/4] Memory-barrier documentation updates |
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:51:46 -0500 > > > I wish vger wouldn't do that. I wonder how much spam is really flagged > > by this one characteristic alone. That is, spam that would have made it > > otherwise, but because of the Cc list, it was rejected. > > 10 to 20 spam posts per day are prevented by this rule. > > And frankly it's totally rediculous to have such a huge CC: list > in the first place, even if the vger spam filter didn't exist.
Absolutely agreed - in fact huge Cc: lists are a PITA when committing patches: I have to trim them down to something reasonable, without losing important Cc: entries ...
So vger is doing us a service there, and not just by filtering spam.
Thanks,
Ingo
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