On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 03:59:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/18/2014 3:22 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > ... > > I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam > > is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx list aliases. > > Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. > > 53/173, non-scientific, in my folders, so roughly 1/3rd of spam getting > through the nets is addressed to the deprecated address. I agree, kill > that alias. > > > FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists > > directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. > > Maybe my vision is skewed. The only other open list I sub is > linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. It has a little less average volume than > xfs, but only like one spam every few days gets through. More likely my vision is skewed - I deal with a few thousand of emails every day and delete most of them immediately without reading anything other than the subject line(*). Spam is a tiny, tiny percentage of the of mail I process every day.... Perspective ;) Cheers, Dave. (*) The shiniest key on my keyboard is 'd', indicating it is the most used key, all because I use it to delete mail ;) -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
