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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.