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Quoted 5 lines · Michael Peddemors
I think that this is one list where we have to keep the ability to post from individuals separate from the need to make sure that their ISP or company is compliant to a set a of rules.. The LKML can't toe the strictest of lines, without loosing some possibly valuable contributors..
Well, comparing how much spam goes thru linux-mm vs. linux-kernel, I would say our methods are fairly effective.
A stupid measure, since you cannot determine what was rejected, i.e. how many babies you threw out with the bathwater.
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The incentive behind the DUL is to force users not to post straight out to the world, but to use their ISP's servers for outbound email --- normal M$ users do that, after all.
Some ISPs rely on crap software & OS to process email, and have other bad habits besides. Censorship usually does more bad than good (especially since dealing with 80% of the spam is trivial for procmail), as has been pointed out in this case. The stupidity of the this approach is well shown by the email-blacklist groups blacklisting each other, I would think that lkml had more brains.
Controlling email is a power game, where you set yourself up as a tin god and proclaim that you alone know what is safe for the "dumb" masses to read. Perhaps the lkml sheep will abide by such control, but I would think that 'free software' would have 'free discussions'.