list spam

[Troy McCorkell]

On 02/18/2014 04:52 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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 ;)
>    

I'll talk with the SGI IT group about disabling the linux-xfs mail alias.

Thanks,
Troy