Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 15:30:02 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <9504242130.AA20115@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504241023.MAA29960@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Apr 24, 95 12:23:26 pm
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> > Hmm, if this was acceptable we could gate all the "general" mailing lists > > to the newsgroups in this way. They'd look like the linux newsgroups then :-) > > That's a thing I don't want to see. Many Linux friends I know have > stopped reading the *linux newsgroups because of the S/N ratio. I have a one-word argument against bidirectional gating: SPAM I realize that there is nothing that prevent C&S or whoever from posting off-topic grunge to mailing lists as well as news groups, but the job should not be done for them. There is enough danger of junk email just publishing the addresses. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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