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From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Remove or obfuscate spam in the *-bugs mailing lists?
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <540F4FA3.7010407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140909185315.GA6643@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

On 09/09/14 12:53, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Right.  There are similar words in sourceware.org/lists.html (which I
> may have even written).  It's usually pointless to edit the archives
> because the information eventually leaks out to the interwebs.  That +
> it could become a full-time job to tweak the archives.
>
> But, it really bugs me that some evil dudes could try to subvert our
> system so I'd like to eliminate any remaining benefit they could see
> from sending spam here.
Yea, and that's probably the biggest reason to delete the crap.

> Nevertheless, I'm willing to do either.  If no one objects, I'll do
> the deletion.  Otherwise, I'll just nuke content and subjects.
No strong preference, particularly since you're doing the work.  I'm 
happy with either choice.

jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09 16:28 Christopher Faylor
2014-09-09 17:21 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2014-09-09 18:53   ` Christopher Faylor
2014-09-09 19:06     ` Jeff Law [this message]
2014-09-09 20:44     ` Gerald Pfeifer
2014-09-10  0:31       ` Christopher Faylor

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