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Date:      Fri, 16 May 1997 20:14:45 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   YO!  This is getting crazy, folks!
Message-ID:  <21021.863838885@time.cdrom.com>

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Over the last week or so, -hackers has turned into something of a
sewer and I, for one, am about to unsubscribe due to the extremely LOW
signal-to-noise ratio now present in this list.

*Please* folks, remember the mailing list charters!  This mailing list
is for technical discussion relating to FreeBSD, it is not for the
discussion of black helicopters in Israel, sheep cloning or questions
about which modem to buy, such discussions only detracting from the
lists' intended purpose and scaring the people with actual technical
content into simply taking their discussions off-line (or unsubscribing
from -hackers altogether, as I'm about to do).

So, to summarize:

If you want to talk about black helicopters, send it to
freebsd-chat@freebsd.org.

If you want to talk about modems, send it to freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
unless said modems have nothing to do with FreeBSD at all, in which
case you might either raise it in -chat or in a very *short* thread in
freebsd-isp.  Better still, go to comp.dcom.modems with it.

If you have a general FreeBSD question, send it to questions@freebsd.org

And above all, if you see a topic veering out of control, *check the
headers* before following up!  In a lot of cases, I'll take someone
to task over their wholly irrelevant postings and they'll respond with
"Oh, well, it was on the cc line and I didn't pay any attention to it."
SO PAY ATTENTION! :-)  You're still responsible for where your postings
go, whether you originally set the cc line or not.

Thank you!

					Jordan




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