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 _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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