Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:01:03 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@efn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: If you come only once, you've been cheated. Message-ID: <20010104170103.A95679@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <E14EBqu-000Igj-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:58:52PM %2B0000 References: <E14EBqu-000Igj-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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On Thu 2001-01-04 (14:58), Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > On Thu 2001-01-04 (09:04), The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > It can't be a closed list. Think about it - it is for people who have > > > > questions. The people who are subscribed are interested in answering > > > > questions, or seeing questions and answers. > > > > > > Odd, every one of the PostgreSQL mailing lists are closed lists and are > > > reasonably high traffic ... we even have a bi-directional news<->mail > > > gateway ... > > > > Does it also have like 300 mails a day? Are there people really willing > > to subscribe for a few minutes, then post, then hurry to unsubscribe to > > prevent a mail flood? > > > > The questions@FreeBSD.org mail address is on countless pages, and > > there's no possible reason we'd want to bog someone or a group of people > > down for up to 50 or 75 or 100 approvals a day due to getting spam once > > every few days. It's very important to be inclusive and accessible to > > our users, and to have the costs of getting help as low as possible. > > I agree with that sentiment. > However I also think that the traffic on this list is almost unmanageably > high, and a suggestion made the other day that a list specifically for > nat/ipfw and relatives be made should be seriously considered. A huge > proportion of mail is on these subjects. freebsd-ipfw exists already. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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