Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list?

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 15:29:42 EST


On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:39:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Maw, 2006-08-08 am 13:23 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> > You would make bug reports impossible from normal people who
> > don't want to subscribe fully. It would totally wreck the
> > development model.
>
> Only if applied without imagination.
>
> Tag subject lines from non subscribes with [nonsub] and everyone can
> then decide for themselves.

This looks like a very clever yet simple idea (if easy to implement at all) !
While I have no anti-spam and am not annoyed at all by the low spam rate on
LKML, I think this would make my cleaning operations even more effective.

Cheers,
Willy

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