Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 15:36:36 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam and this list Message-ID: <15378.34788.575400.374414@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <650878@toto.iv>
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Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:46:07PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: > > > Is it not time to make this list open to subscribers only ? > > No. This is *the* published address for help with freebsd. We can't > > require subscription to it. > Ok, I do understand that. I did get some (polite) mail from people > explaining that they simply did not have the time or the facilities > to download lots of messages to find the answer to the question they > asked. It's worse than that. Somebody finds a copy of FreeBSD on a shelf somewhere, buys and installs it, then wants help - this is the contact point. They'll ask questions without realizing that they could subscribe to it. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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