From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 11 09:25:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA04157 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:25:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA04152 Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:25:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA15848; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:23:29 -0800 To: Mark Murray cc: chat@freebsd.org, postmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Morons... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:10:13 +0200." <199512111710.TAA24646@grumble.grondar.za> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:23:29 -0800 Message-ID: <15846.818702609@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Yeah, I remember that well! :-) There were actually 3-4 such lists that I knew of. In fact, one of them was called (not surprisingly): clueless@ :-) I think our ultimate solution is to make the announce list moderated. Jonathan - how much trouble would that be? Jordan > Hi > > Way back, when I was a nipper, there was a list for twits like this. > Anyone could subscribe them, and the sole purpose was for them to try to > get off; very easy if you sent your "unsubscribe" to majordomo@. > > The purpose was for aforesaid twits to discuss amongst themselves how > they got there in the first, place, then how to get off. > > Picture the scene - 90% of the traffic is frantic "unsubscribe, dammit!" > mail, there rest is equally frantic plain noise. > > I seem to recall that some folks learnt how to use list servers this > way... > > Anyone remember this? > > M > > ------- Forwarded Message > > Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 16:25:34 +0100 > From: "g.seidel" > To: announce@freebsd.org > Sender: owner-announce@freebsd.org > Precedence: bulk > > unsubscribe freebsd-announce > > ------- End of Forwarded Message >