From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 21 4:38:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3346F118C8 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.51]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA6682; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:38:05 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00496; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:47:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36CF2A7A.9DCF475@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:47:10 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: root@isis.dynip.com Subject: Re: Is Re-arranging FreeBSD Majordomo Lists Required Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Malartre Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Feb-99 Malartre wrote: > root@isis.dynip.com wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> Looking at the kinds of questions on the FreeBSD-Questions mailing >> list, I want to ask iss it feasible to create the following lists: >> >> 1. FreeBSD-Urgent --> People with crashes, lost passwords >> and all cirisis situations This will be a list that will be easily abused from the start since every person new to an Operating System like FreeBSD will think that their probleem is indeed urgent and deemed a crisis situation. >> 2. FreeBSD-Hardware --> People with questions about hardware >> support required for their >> hardware, and Driver programmers >> can meet their customers. Already exists. >> 3. FreeBSD-Network --> Natd, pppd, ipfw, Sendmail and all >> that gang Already exists. >> This will take away much of the Load off the Questions list >> It will also increase the specificity of the lists, thus making them >> more productive Nah, that won't happen. Be glad that questions exists else the other lists would be having a very high signal/noise ratio. > I was thinking to simply add alias to the freebsd-questions mailing > list. > What it mean is that all mail goes to freebsd-questions, but that you > can classify them in folders using filters. > Like, freebsd-hardware is an alias to freebsd-questions. You only have > to subscribe to freebsd-questions, and you will receive a mail sent to > freebsd-hardware. Thus increasing the message flow one gets from questions and add to crossposting... On a sidenote, may I suggest creating a normal user account for yourself and not mail out as root? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org> asmodai(at)wxs.nl This is my Truth, tell me your's... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message