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"I don't think there's any benefit to anyone for developers to hide their stuff on remote mailing lists. Copying lkml increases the chances that someone will spot a bug or some improvement and it generally keeps people informed as to what's going on. Yeah, 120,000 messages/year. But a lot of them are just noise. Patches are important."

— Andrew Morton, in an October 19th, 2007 message on the Linux Kernel mailing list.