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Date:      Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:45:42 +1596657 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Cc:        FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups
Message-ID:  <199504221645.SAA00739@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199504211910.UAA11985@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Apr 21, 95 08:10:46 pm

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> I was just wondering, what do people think about gating hackers mail
> into the newsgroups. Hackers is a fairly open forum anyway and the
> new newsgroups are actually pretty good technically so it would
> boost our presence if we got more traffic going through it.

To MHO there is enough confusing (for the innocent bystander..) 
traffic on -hackers to make this a less than desirable idea. Why not
point people to the mailing list when they are asking for specific
info that warrants reading -hackers?

> Note, I'm only talking about hackers and I'm only talking about hackers
> mail going to the newsgroup and not the other way around, we don't want
> all those Linux flames coming onto the mailing list.

Arghh ;-)

>   Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 

Wilko
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