[Intel-gfx] PROBLEM: i915 modesetting - weird offset graphics (v2.6.37-rc1-27-gff8b16d)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2010-11-04 13:41-0000 Chris Wilson wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:37:01 -0400, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
>> Also, the intel-gfx list is moderated with auto-rejection. Do I really
>> need to subscribe to the list just to get a mail through?
>
> A few of the Intel gfx engineers are at Plumbers. If you tell Jesse about
> it, he may be able to convince the powers-that-be to change the policy.
> -Chris

I think the present list policy of posting only allowed for
subscriber's only is a good one.  My experience with some mailing
lists for particular SourceForge projects that I admin is if you allow
unsubscribed users to post, then lots of spam tends to gets posted
despite every effort by SourceForge to filter out spam.  Just out of
curiosity I have forwarded failing spam attempts for all SourceForge
mailing lists I admin to my own personal e-mail account to track what
is going on.  Most lists I admin have no spam attacks on them, but the
most active of them (plplot-devel) has thousands of thwarted attempts
to spam to it over say the last year.  So it appears the spammers keep
track of which mailing lists are active and don't waste their time on
relatively inactive lists.

However, it should be pointed out that this list is more active than
plplot-devel so I assume the spamming would start quite quickly if the
present list policy were changed.  Or this list may already be under
lots of spam attacks which are thwarted by the present policy.

Such spam shouldn't matter that much to list subscribers if they have
good spam filters (like I do with spam_bayes), but spamming does tend
to fill up your mailing-list archive with a load of crap which makes
it more difficult to browse or search that archive.

In sum, spammers appear to be generally lazy so that the small barrier
to entry of demanding all posts be from the poster's subscription
address continues to be an amazingly good tactic against spam in my
experience.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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