On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 19:24:07 +0100 Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Way more than 800, IME. And I'm still subscribed to it, even though > reading through the damn thing isn't physically possible. About 1 or 2 > percents gets past the "delete unopened" pass... I keep the last 10 weeks in my folder (and archive the rest.) That's 70 days worth, and I have 78,109 emails currently in that folder. OK, it's been a while since I last took the average. It appears to be 1114 emails per day now. I blame the extra 300 emails a day being the stable updates :-D > > Speaking of private mail... there's one case when it's warranted - > a bug that looks like a sufficiently nasty security hole in something that > would be sufficiently widely deployed. Preferably - with something along > the lines of "off-list due to potential security impact". > > Still a matter of taste - security@ is an option for those... I was about to say "then include the security@ mailing list". ;-) It's still not a private one. But for those that do not know about that mailing list, yeah, private is fine. But that's not really the focus of this discussion. -- Steve
