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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@gcc.gnu.org>
To: Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>
Cc: overseers@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Separate commit mailing lists for trunk/branches possible?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 15:48:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200717194816.GA13274@cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2007171838300.234068@eddie.linux-mips.org>

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:05:48PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> As you have probably been well-aware the amount of traffic sent to the 
><gcc-cvs@gcc.gnu.org> mailing list has grown dramatically since the switch 
>to GIT.  Last month alone I received over 13000 messages, which accounted 
>for ~18.5% of all my incoming traffic.  And right now another mailbomb has 
>been in progress; since midnight I have received over 3700 messages so 
>far.
>
> Most of this stuff is vendor branch stuff I find completely uninteresting 
>to me and which from my point of view is a waste of resources.  I could 
>filter it to /dev/null via `procmail', but that would still be a waste.

Actually, it seems like a procmail rule would solve your problem.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-17 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-17 18:05 Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-07-17 18:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-07-17 18:46   ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-17 19:41     ` Florian Weimer
2020-07-17 20:47       ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-07-17 20:50         ` Joseph Myers
2020-07-17 20:55           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-07-17 19:48 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2020-07-19 20:57   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-07-19 21:15     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-07-19 21:56       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-07-17 20:37 ` Joseph Myers
2021-09-27 14:48 overseers&gcc gnu org
2021-10-08 10:49 Maciej W. Rozycki

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