[155154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Jul 30 13:37:22 2012
To: Panashe Flack <lists222@m.l.vaunt.eu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:04:36 +0200."
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:35:35 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:04:36 +0200, Panashe Flack said:
> list for continued activity. And just for reference - have you guys
> SEEN the "Linux Kernel Mailing List"? - it gets frequent spam posts
> and yet is perfectly able to ignore the spam/irrelevant posts and
> continue on its remit.
For those who don't drink from the Linux-Kernel firehose, it averages
1 or 2 spams per day - and anywhere from 500 to 700 postings a day.
As Linus Torvalds said, back when it was averaging 200 a day:
"Note that nobody reads every post in linux-kernel. In fact, nobody who
expects to have time left over to actually do any real kernel work will
read even half. Except Alan Cox, but he's actually not human, but about
a thousand gnomes working in under-ground caves in Swansea. None of the
individual gnomes read all the postings either, they just work together
really well."
The list managers do an incredible job of stopping spam - but even if
50 or 75 a day got through, they'd just be lost in the noise. You're skipping
several hundred messages a day, skipping a few more isn't any different.
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