Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:20:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Hartley <mark@work.drapple.com> To: Ju Ichi <freebsd-security@ichi.net> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only Message-ID: <XFMail.020827162043.mark@work.drapple.com> In-Reply-To: <200208271849.12854.freebsd-security@ichi.net>
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On 27-Aug-02 Ju Ichi wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 6:27 pm, Mark Murray wrote: >> Blaming individuals is not what I'm after. > > Fair enough. > >> >> OK - If you see a question, please reduce the question to its most >> general form, and supply both the question and the answer to the >> DOCS folks for committing. >> >> See what I mean? :-) > > Sure thing. > >> >> > One other thing, (and not to stir anything up, but) do you mean FAQs from > the >> > list? If so, that should mean that people ask questions on the list. >> > Correct? :-) >> >> Any question that is asked more than once and that annoys you (joke!) >> is an FAQ. Useful non-security FAQ's can be handed over to the DOCs folks >> for safekeeping :-). > > I know what you mean. > > I've been involved in Usenet for quite a while and got into running local > news > servers in the mid-1990s. These sort of problems are the same whether it is > on Usenet or in mailing lists. It's a matter of educating people as much as > you can and realizing there will still be people who don't/can't read. :-) > > As I believe someone else already suggested, a weekly or monthly automated > message to the list that sets out guidelines may be a good idea. IMHO, most > peole mean well, they just don't know. The first thing though is to figure > out what is acceptable to the majority of the active list members and get it > in a short, readable format. If there are things that *must* not be sent to > this list then document them. If there are things that just *should* not be > sent to the list then document them that way as well. Then fight your major > battles over the things that have been documented as "*must* not happen". > See what I mean? > > Ju Can you explain to me how a weekly/monthly message to the list would be helpful if people don't have to be subscribed to post to the list. The people who need this information most are the ones who AREN'T subscribed already. While I can see value in sending such a message, I think this list still needs to require you to be subscribed before you post. Maybe we could have that informational message be sent when you subscribe to the list, so that everyone new to the list would at least have been sent the info once. Just a thought. Mark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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