> Isn't this also a problem if the person managing the email list goes rogue? You have to trust someone to host the infrastructure. It depends on what kind of

> Isn't this also a problem if the person managing the email list goes rogue? You have to trust someone to host the infrastructure. It depends on what kind of threat you are worried about. The beautiful thing is even if LKML was abused and ruined tomorrow, nothing is lost or damaged. The emails have already been sent, and moving to a new list is more of a nuisance at this point. If you're worried about authenticating a patch series, committers can sign their commits a number of ways. Lastly, a large chunk of Linux development happens off-list, with subsystem maintainers building branches for Linus or Greg to pull from.