From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 8 9:10:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C6A15137 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:10:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id SAA32350; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:03:54 +0200 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id SAA39070; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:00:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 18:00:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <199910081600.SAA39070@saturn.kn-bremen.de> To: asmodai@wxs.nl Subject: Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.hackers In-Reply-To: <19991003133954.B24242@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <18238.938873650.1@critter.freebsd.dk> Organization: home Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19991003133954.B24242@daemon.ninth-circle.org> you write: >On [19991002 20:18], Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@freebsd.org) wrote: >>And that brings me, as I promised earlier, to why I am not subscribed >>to -hackers: >> >>I un-subscribed from -hackers several years ago, because I could >>not keep up with the email load. Since then I have dropped off >>several other lists as well for the very same reason. > >The load itself might not be the burden if only the signal-to-noise >ration would be a lot better. A lot of the topics at hand should've been >made to questions. One maybe useful tip from a (mostly) lurker: turn your list email into news and read them with a decent threaded newsreader. I use inn and its mailpost script and read with trn, both in /usr/ports/news. Just thought i'd mention... -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message