On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:10:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > >NO WAY, there is no way in the world you should post 100 patches >at a time to any mailing list, especially those at vger.kernel.org >that have thousands upon thousands of subscribers. > >Post only small, well contained, sets of patches at a time. At most >10 or so in one go. > >Do you realize how much mail traffic you generate by posting so many >patches at one time, and how unlikely it is for anyone to actually >sift through and review your patches after you've spammed them by >posting so many at one time? > >A second infraction and I will have no choice but to block you at the >SMTP level at vger.kernel.org so please do not do it again. So I really agree with everything you said here, but I do wonder why you haven't sent a similar rant about the often 100+ patchsets for the -stable series. We are supposed to review those and follow up on them to be sure they're suitable for a stable release. Or the 100+ emails about regressions from version to version. Etc, etc. I'm not saying you're wrong, but it does seem a bit odd that you choose to reply to this one, and not the other umpteen cases I often see. Maybe it isn't about the size or volume of the emails, and more about the fact that it's 100 patches to implement _one_ thing? If so, then I don't really think it's about list traffic at all... josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
