[155155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Jul 30 13:42:58 2012
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20721.1343669735@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:42:21 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm sorry Panashe is upset by this rule. Interestingly, "Your search - =
Panashe Flack nanog - did not match any documents." So my guess is that =
a post from that account has not happened before, meaning the post was =
moderated yet still made it through.
Has anyone done a data mining experiment to see how many posts a month =
are from "new" members? My guess is it is a trivial percentage.
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TTFN,
patrick
On Jul 30, 2012, at 13:35 , valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
>=20
> As Linus Torvalds said, back when it was averaging 200 a day:
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> "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."
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> 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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