Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:25:16 -0400 |
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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: > > Ar Maw, 2006-08-08 am 13:23 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen: > > > You would make bug reports impossible from normal people who > > > don't want to subscribe fully. It would totally wreck the > > > development model. > > > > 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.
The spam ratio on LKML is so low that I think this cure would be worse than the disease. Why can't the minority of LKML readers who have absolutely zero tolerance for spam just filter locally?
Lee
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