On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:50, Crispin Cowan wrote: > Repulsive as that spam was, we've already been told that closing the > list is unacceptable to the LKML participants. The only thing I can > think of is something sneaky like closing the list and turning off the > notification so that no one knows its closed except that it appears to > be slow for non-subscribed posters. Since they're not subscribed, they > many not even notice. But that's deceptive and childish, and I don't > really want to do that. IMHO it's childish for them to insist that the list remain open. They should only concern themselves with results not method. When someone posts to the list and their message is promptly delivered without any annoyance (messages saying "your mail may be delivered after a moderator has examined it" are annoying) they have no cause for complaint. > And at the present time, it would also be infeasible to close the list. > The net is under heavy bombardment by the Swen virus, so the mailman > interface is choked with bogus posts. If it were closed, the risk of a > moderator mistakenly rejecting a legitimate post would be very high. Mail sometimes gets lost, it's something we have to deal with. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
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