list spam

[Dave Chinner]

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 at oss.sgi.com 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 at vger.kernel.org.  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 at fromorbit.com