Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts
valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Jul 30 17:35:35 UTC 2012
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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