From: Jeff Becker <Jeffrey.C.Becker@nasa.gov>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] maintainers: moderated mailing list
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:13:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4902568D.1090107@nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ada7i7xsioy.fsf@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Currently, I run the mail server. We switched to moderated lists in
> > mid-August due to a huge increase in spam.
>
> It was just that one backscatter flood targeting the ewg list, right?
>
> It's really annoying to people trying to report bugs etc to get the
> bounce about subscribers-only lists. Would it make sense to move the
> hosting of the general list to vger.kernel.org, since they have a lot
> more resources/experience as mail admins and seem to be able to run open
> but relatively spam-free lists?
>
That's OK with me.
-jeff
> - R.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 1:38 [PATCH] maintainers: moderated mailing list Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24 15:41 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-24 16:05 ` [ofa-general] " Jeff Becker
2008-10-24 22:59 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-24 23:13 ` Jeff Becker [this message]
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