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Re: Spam on this list

To: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Spam on this list
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 16:29:43 -0700
Cc: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, XFS mail list <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:15:29AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:34:58PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On 2016-08-03 15:21, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > 
> > > Lista, Carlos, I recommend: If you are concerned about spam on the list 
> > > contact the listmasters of it. They are the ones that can address it 
> > > globally 
> > > for the list.
> > 
> > Oh, I did, long ago. Still waiting.
> 
> Yes, that is the fundamental issue - spam filtering is essentially
> controlled by SGI's internal infrastructure, which we have little
> option on.
> 
> What it comes down to is whether we continue to use this list
> (xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx) or whether we move to linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> so we get much more robust and up-to-date spam filtering. The issue
> with doing this is forcing everyone to resubscribe, and then
> capturing everything that is still sent to xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> That said, I'm seriously tempted right now just to say "we're moving
> to vger" and asking everyone to resubscribe to that list, and then
> making xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx respond with "list moved to vger, please
> repost there". i.e. not even put a forwarding gateway in place.
> 
> If we do that, then I'll also shut down all the XFS git trees on
> oss.sgi.com - I'll add commits to the them to say "go to
> kernel.org". I'll need to work something out for the tarball
> releases, but kernel.org does have functionality for that, too, so
> that may just be a small change of process on my end (i.e. use kup).
> Once that is done, we'll be running completely on community provided
> infrastructure....
> 
> Thoughts?

YAY!

By the way, could we update the docs on
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Papers_and_Documentation ?

The filesystem structure guide is a little out of date.

(The user guide probably is too, but as I've only been sending patches
for the disk format guide I'm keeping my mouth shut about the others.)

--D

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
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> 
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