From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 6:59: 5 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 06:59:03 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5212437B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14EBqu-000Igj-00; Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:58:52 +0000 To: Neil Blakey-Milner , The Hermit Hacker , Suresh Ramasubramanian , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: If you come only once, you've been cheated. Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:58:52 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu 2001-01-04 (09:04), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > It can't be a closed list. Think about it - it is for people who have > > > questions. The people who are subscribed are interested in answering > > > questions, or seeing questions and answers. > > > > Odd, every one of the PostgreSQL mailing lists are closed lists and are > > reasonably high traffic ... we even have a bi-directional news<->mail > > gateway ... > > Does it also have like 300 mails a day? Are there people really willing > to subscribe for a few minutes, then post, then hurry to unsubscribe to > prevent a mail flood? > > The questions@FreeBSD.org mail address is on countless pages, and > there's no possible reason we'd want to bog someone or a group of people > down for up to 50 or 75 or 100 approvals a day due to getting spam once > every few days. It's very important to be inclusive and accessible to > our users, and to have the costs of getting help as low as possible. I agree with that sentiment. However I also think that the traffic on this list is almost unmanageably high, and a suggestion made the other day that a list specifically for nat/ipfw and relatives be made should be seriously considered. A huge proportion of mail is on these subjects. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message