From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 19 07:04:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06326 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.aldridge.com (ocean.aldridge.com [206.180.139.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06171 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:04:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dlac@aldridge.com) Received: from aldridge.com (america.aldridge.com [206.180.139.33]) by ocean.aldridge.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA15958; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:03:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36A49EC2.BC17B419@aldridge.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:03:30 -0600 From: "David L. Aldridge" Organization: The Aldridge Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Chvostek CC: Joe Gleason , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SurfChina.com - Search Engine for China References: <199901190244.VAA28391@flarn.it.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is bad enough that a piece of spam noise hit our list. The real noise is coming from people who can't get over it and just use the Del key. May we please move this list back to subject matter? No response to this post is requested. :+ Dave Paul Chvostek wrote: > > Quoth Joe Gleason: > > I find the signal to noise ratio on all the freebsd lists I am on to be > > quite good. > > I don't think spam and random junk to the list is a common enough occerance > > to worry about. > > I don't buy that. How many off-topic commercial posts will you tolerate > on the list before you consider it a problem? If it exists at a small > scale, the opportunity exists for it to exist at a large scale. If we > can come up with a way of avoiding posts like this when they're > infrequent enough not to be excessively annoying, then we can avoid the > escalation altogether. > > But this is off-topic for this list. Perhaps we should start a list > for it. freebsd-abuse, anyone? > > -- > Paul Chvostek > Operations / Development vox: +1 416 598 0000 > IT Canada http://www.it.ca/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- David L. Aldridge The Aldridge Company 281.368.0166 (fax: 281.368.0381) http://www.aldridge.com/ Powered by Pentium/FreeBSD/Apache - Because it works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message