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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:19:00 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New mailing list for ports announcements
Message-ID:  <20111229071900.GD4177@procyon.xvoid.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111229092305.15cf3117@laptop>
References:  <20111229055926.GF76917@hub.freebsd.org> <20111229092305.15cf3117@laptop>

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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:23:05AM +0300, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:59:26 -0500
> Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > At the request of adamw@ (and others) we have setup a ports-announce@
> > mailing list to try distinguish the usual traffic on the ports@ list
> > vs the announcements that seem to get lost in there.
> > 
> 
> Useless and harmful list, IMO. People who can 'lost' announcements here
> likely lose it on another list,  but there is a chance that people who
> read ports@ lose announce/CFT from _only_ freebsd-ports-announce.
> Of course, you can write to multiple lists.. But lets look at current@
> stable@ and performance@ archives...
> tadam! "Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1
> Server". 

You seem to miss the "moderated" part..
 
> Is that ok ? I think 'No' ( Tons of spam in [ 3 of N ] ML that I
> subscribed )
> 
> > You can subscribe at
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports-announce
> > 
> > It is intended, but not limited, to be a means of communicating
> > portmgr@ announcements, Calls for Testing, plus other relevant
> > information to be used by our committers and ports maintainer
> > community.
> > 
> > It is our hope to keep this relatively low in traffic.  It is a
> > moderated list, under the auspices of portmgr@.
    ^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > Please subscribe sit back, and enjoy.


Yuri



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