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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Porn SPAM
To: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:28:06 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <3481f768.5825070@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from "John Kelly" at Nov 27, 97 10:44:56 pm
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John Kelly wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:31:29 -0800 (PST), "Jonathan M. Bresler"
> <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> 
> >> Livingston (the Portmaster people) changed their mailing list rules to
> >> stop spam  -- you cannot post from any email address which is not
> >> subscribed to the list.
> 
> >	one of the purposes of the lists is to serve as a source of
> >	quick answers to people.  this is particularly true of
> >	freebsd-questions.
> 
> OK, well then how about leaving -questions open and restricting the
> others.  Surely that would be appropriate for -hackers and such.

	its not impossible, but there is reluctance to take that step.
	it is somwhat isolating....an item for consideration.
jmb