From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 23:57:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA24242 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:57:46 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA24236 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:57:45 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA29984; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:55:31 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199504240655.XAA29984@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Apr 24, 95 01:52:50 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1992 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > all 'news' items have the following headder tacked on the FRONT of them > > before being gated to usenet: > > > > **************************************************************************** > > * This article has been forwarded to USENET from the FreeBSD-questions * > > * mailing list. It's appearance here on USENET is for informational * > > * purposes only. Replies to USENET on this topic will NOT be seen * > > * by the original posters. to reply, send mail to: * > > * FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org * > > * send mail to majordome@FreeBSD.org, stating 'help' for more information * > ^^^^^^^^^(majordomo) > > **************************************************************************** > > Eek! Do you really want to add another ~600 bytes to every > message gated from freebsd-questions to the newsgroup? Wouldn't a > weekly FAQ with instructions on joining the mailing lists be enough? > Or at least shorten the banner to something like: well, YES if you must know... it can't be missed, and all those thiings need to be said.. I'd settle for: ****** * forwarded from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list. * Replies to USENET on this topic will NOT be seen * by the original posters. to reply, send mail to: * FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org (answers or followups) * send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org, stating 'help' for more information ****** I think your version is TOO brief.. part of the effect of the banner is to reinforce the idea that there is more going on than just the USENET group shows. > > [ Reposted from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list! To subscribe to this ] > [ list, send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org with "help" in message body. ] > > ... and set Reply-To: to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org like someone > else mentioned. If we are sure that works for all NEWS software.... julian