From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 1 09:36:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08722 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08702; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:36:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199607011636.JAA08702@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Are you a programmer? Do you wear glasses? To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 09:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607011411.JAA15200@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jul 1, 96 09:11:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > Could someone please UUENCODE (i.e. *expand*) the CVS hierarchy and > > > > mail it to this guy? Maybe 10K each day for the next year or so? > > > > > > :). AOL has like a 300K limit on mail messages. Probably because > > > people who use AOL tend to piss other people off. > > > > Actually, aren't the lists set up so that only subscribers can post > > to the lists? Or, is that considered too "unfriendly"? > > That would be bad to do, people are often referred here when they encounter > strange problems. > > It might make sense to hold their messages in an "approval queue" if they > are not a list member. we had had vbery few incidents of this type. i get to the approval queue every day or two. because of that dealy, a new user might get left out in the cold for 48 hours. better to live with a spam or two every onnce in a while than to lose people because we are too distant. in spite of how much i hate spam....sigh jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB