Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 13:52:37 -0600 From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You've Been Added! Message-ID: <200205071952.g47JqbB98317@revolt.poohsticks.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 May 2002 20:21:34 %2B0200." <20020507182134.GA72953@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg>
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In message <20020507182134.GA72953@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg>, mkb@inform atik.uni-wuerzburg.de writes: >This is an idea I have favoured for a long time, imho mailing lists >with hundreds of messages per day are just an abuse of the medium, >Usenet is an excellent vehicle for that kind of traffic. Usenet was excellent before use amongst drooling mouth-breathers skyrocketed thereby inherently decreasing the signal to noise ration and scaring off the reasonable posters. Now, unmoderated groups are unuseable. >All the mailing lists that exist for so many products etc. kinda >form an unorganized shadow Usenet that would better be folded into >the real one (given that comp.unix.bsd.* does even exist) or use a >seperate dedicated newsserver. A parallel news feed with stricter rules for membership is the only viable solution. -- <a href="http://www.poohsticks.org/drew/">Home Page</a> For those who do, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, no explanation is possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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