Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:23:07 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time to close the list? Message-ID: <20001102122307.W37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0011020113230.22726-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:28:09AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011020230360.31202-100000@achilles.silby.com> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0011020113230.22726-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:28:09AM -0800, Alex Belits wrote:
> Some places with not-so-nice connectivity to the rest of the Internet
> use local lists to distribute this list among users -- this is why there
> are messages with no to:/cc: hackers@freebsd.org in the first place. And
> it will do nothing for autoresponders because autoresponder may happen to
> be subscribed directly just like anything else. So, real solutions are:
Also when moving a discussion from one mailing list to another, most people
use:
To: freebsd-newlist
Cc: all the people who were in the thread
Bcc: freebsd-oldlist
[ moving discussion -newlist ]
etc
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