Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:50:55 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> Subject: Re: URGENT Message-ID: <20020621155055.A28562@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10206210910580.24027-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:12:25AM -0400 References: <20020621082346465.AAA685@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10206210910580.24027-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Stephen Hovey typed: > > > > > > The spam on this list is pretty phenomenal. Was it always this > > > bad? > > > > > > I don't think so. Then again, spam has gotten a lot worse everywhere > > over the last year or so. > > > > Then again, if questions@freebsd.org was like 95% of the email lists > > out there and didn't allow anyone in the whole wide world to post > > without being a listmember, I *guarantee* it would not be as bad as > > it is now. > > > > I think this was talked about in the past and the reasoning had something > to do with a problem of legit users not gettin it on their from addresses > in that arrangement (in other words signing up one way, but emailing from > another)... Personally, I think if you cant figure out that piece, you > should be a windows user.. > From /etc/motd (what every newbee will read after the first successfull installation): If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it as a question to the questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list. I consider this an excellent service provided by FreeBSD. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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