Re: ChangeLog suggestion

b_adlakha@softhome.net
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:08:22 -0600


On Saturday 26 April 2003 23:59, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Sat, 26 April 2003 11:06:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Personally, I want to have some address that I can reach the author at,
> > and if that means that spammers can pick it up too (open source means
> > that everybody has the same stuff _I_ have) I guess people who want to
> > talk to me need to live with spam filters or send patches to me from
> > special accounts.
>
> It's not that bad. Since I started posting to lkml, my daily spam
> dosis has risen from one to three, roughly. Annoying, but not a big
> problem, even without filters.
>
> Jörn

All the spam comes because of the archives of this mailing list stored as
HTML
in thousands of places. The web-spider programs used by the spammers are
sure
to find atleast one.
My inbox is full of stuff like "Strictly Confidental" and "your solution to
never ending spam"
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