Re: [PATCH v4 tip/core/locking 0/4] Memory-barrier documentationupdates

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:51:46 -0500
> 
> > I wish vger wouldn't do that. I wonder how much spam is really flagged
> > by this one characteristic alone. That is, spam that would have made it
> > otherwise, but because of the Cc list, it was rejected.
> 
> 10 to 20 spam posts per day are prevented by this rule.
> 
> And frankly it's totally rediculous to have such a huge CC: list
> in the first place, even if the vger spam filter didn't exist.

Absolutely agreed - in fact huge Cc: lists are a PITA when committing 
patches: I have to trim them down to something reasonable, without 
losing important Cc: entries ...

So vger is doing us a service there, and not just by filtering spam.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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