From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 22:02:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBD616A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1DE43D1F for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 22:02:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so400390wra for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:02:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V3PLOzL//7PdbXBpdvu7X3kSpL37H9VJxGC/7ZPgBKbuDKPYLyIeJc8KzBa+7LXPnoXWzBv7hBraihtKx4SrMR1NVRRn00/8l8dav1x9HyopJtB9eHqTkHxKvzCfqUHiGIi1M64PGb/W8Y180JwwhP5448/9KEaRAgU9N1BO5Nc= Received: by 10.54.34.16 with SMTP id h16mr1936362wrh; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.2 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:02:07 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: Bart Silverstrim In-Reply-To: <5c749d17ef6acc429de8775c84e98e4c@chrononomicon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <5c749d17ef6acc429de8775c84e98e4c@chrononomicon.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: Test messages to -questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nikolas Britton List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:02:09 -0000 On 7/1/05, Bart Silverstrim wrote: >=20 > [deleted] >=20 > While proposing ways to stop people from sending test messages to > lists, can someone find a way to filter out top posting as well? :-) I'm not trying to stop anybody. I'm purposing ping for SMTP, The construct is like an echo request. So when you send a blank message with a subject such as test or ping the mail server replies to the email saying it got the email. The mail server that acknowledges this email would be whatever was listed in the DNS MX record of the email address that was entered in the to: field. So if I ping the email address questions@freebsd.org then {mx1,mx2}.freebsd.org replies back to say it got the message. I think this could be a useful diagnostic tool. =20 >=20 > Actually, fbsd_user is right; wouldn't sending tests only test if you > can send test messages to the test group while not at all verifying > that membership and configuration is correct for posting and getting > messages to and from the FBSD-questions list? No the mail all goes to the same server. When you subscribe to the group the mail server send you a confirmation email that you must reply to and then it sends a welcome email. >=20 > I think the more intelligent approach to "test" the connection would be > to actually send some kind of question a new user would have about > FreeBSD to the list as a sly way of testing the configuration, but > that's just me. What about this?